New training pains...

So I'm in the new training pains at the moment. I find it hard to go to the gym and do a half-arsed training session, that makes easing myself into training difficult. I have also suffered this several times so know the timetable of pain to come, first day bad, secondary worse, third day onwards improving and a week later I should be mostly back to normal.

I did my first squat/deadlift day on Friday last week and by my standards I was restrained, I stopped squats a full plate each side less than my pre-break rep max. That said there was a deadlift machine in the gym so I did machine deadlifts as well as free weight deadlifts.

I knew I was going to be in pain after the routine before I even walked into the gym, this was reaffirmed when after the gym by how weak my legs felt. Saturday was bad that said I could walk - my wife did keep telling me to bend my knees something that wasn't going to happen. However Saturday was filled with the impending doom that Sunday is going to hurt worse.

True to form Sunday was worse, the idea of doing anything productive that day was gone. Walking generally was slow and painful and I needed support from nearby furniture, Doing a half flight of stairs took 5+ min, and going for a crap was dam near impossible.

I'm now into Monday, so things are improving and by Friday I should be mostly back to normal. The bad news is that I will be doing squats again by then, on the bright side this pain is a only ever this bad first time around.

I should say for those who think lack of warming up or cooling down is to blame trust me it isn't. I always do both warm up and cool down cardio even more so when I know I'm going to get the first time pains. I should also say there not injury pains - I know the difference well, these are waking my muscles up pains - they now what to expect next time and so will be prepared to deal with it this week.