⚠️ SORENESS DOESN'T MEAN YOUR WORKOUT WORKED.
I know. You've been told your whole life
that if you're not sore, you didn't train hard.
It's wrong. Here's what's actually happening.
Soreness = muscle experiencing something unfamiliar.
That's it.
When you first squat, everything is unfamiliar,
so everything hurts for 3 days. As you adapt,
the soreness fades — not because the workout
stopped working, but because your body got
better at handling it.
Chasing soreness means you'll:
→ Keep randomising your training to stay uncomfortable
→ Never actually master the movements that build
the most muscle
→ Confuse damage with progress
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The real marker of progress is one thing:
Are you doing MORE than last week?
More weight. More reps. More control.
Progressive overload is the mechanism.
Soreness is just a side effect of being new.
The most advanced lifters in the world
are barely sore anymore.
Because they dont chase soreness, they chase consistency and incremental progress…. Also their bodies have adapted pretty well and the more often you train, the less sore you get.
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