Muscles Not Sore

[trikydik]

Good Afternoon,

I have been working out steadily for 3 weeks. Been on TRT for 5 weeks at 150mg per week.
Mon Thur are arms and chest
Tues Fri are legs
Wed and Sat are core

Problem is except for core work and my hamstrings, my muscles do not get sore at all. Before the TRT I would hurt for days.
I am working out until exhausted... but still not sore.

I would think my legs would be exhausted as I do 30 min on the treadmill each night as well, including the nights I do legs....

Any thoughts?

[marcus300]

Your not training hard or intense enough to stimulate the muscle, you also need to change your split and go back to basic training and when your in the gym make it count

[EasyDoesIt]

I agree with Marcus. What happened to you shoulders and back workouts, i don't see them listed. I don't want to design a workout for you, but if you were working legs hard, you would not be able to do a half hour of treadmill after, nor do you need to.

[pumping_iron86]

Lifting 14 years. I sometimes take off a week, that helps. For my body, I remain sore because I never do the same thing. I switch between all dumbbells, bars even machines. I also like to do a ridiculously high rep range every three weeks or so to keep my muscles guessing. Every forth chest work out or so for example I will do like, only upper chest excercises. Just to keep it weird lol Idk if that helps you. Good luck...

[NaijaBoy]

Before TRT, muscles would get sore
After you started TRT, muscles don't get sore
Solution: Increase workout intensity either through poundage and/or reps.
Ps: your routine needs revising

[hellomycognomen]

Marcus is spot on. You have to leave everything in the gym, every workout, that's how you maximize gains.

[chaps]

I would suspect a not-so-great routine as the problem. I am highly skeptical of any routine that doesn't have you moving through a range of different weight/rep schemes. I like 3 weeks of high rep, 3 weeks mid rep and 3 weeks low rep followed by 12 day deload aka, hst. Say your high/mid/low is 15/10/5. Each week, setup a progression so that you add weight every week. So if you bench 185x15 on week 1, week 2 190x15, week 3 195x15. Then move on to 200x10... and so on. Increased load over time keeps you sore and keeps you growing. You do not need to push max weights every week either. If you bench 225x5... start week 1 of the 5 rep range at 215 and make it look easy (speed is a way to stimulate). The deload is important too, HST calls it "strategic deconditioning". The idea is after weeks of training, your body's adaptive response diminishes. So you lay off to reset that response.

[bartman314]

i used to be an 8-12+ rep guy for all exercises and was rarely sore (even with 2 hour workouts). since oct, i've been doing HIT @ 12-15 working sets/body part of heavy (4-6 reps). i am sore all the time... (doing a 5 day split, which i think is enough r&r).