[Veloce]

(02-05-2014 07:20 PM)Seaver Wrote:  

I see a lot of people recommend lifting 3-4 times a week, but I'm so sore for on the 2nd day after that I can't really get a good workout in, so I usually have to recover for 2 days before the next lifting session.

I typically try to do something active on those 2 days (yoga/stretching, jogging, play a sport, row or bike), but it makes it hard to get 3 weight lifting sessions in per week.

Has anyone else run into this problem? How are you dealing with it?

Give us some more info. That's definitely not normal. Ditch the cardio/yoga on your off days until you figure this out. You should be able to push a major muscle group to complete failure, be sore as shit, and go back for more 2 days later. Agree on developing a weekly routine, right now I'm on something like this:

Mon-Back and arms (deadlifts, rows, pulldowns)
Wed-Leg and arms (squats, leg ext, curls for girls)
Fri-Chest and arms (Incline bench, db press, incline flies)

First, the basics:

Calories- make sure you're eating enough, specifically carbs and proteins. There's more than enough literature out there for you to figure out how much you need and in what percentage

Water- Drink plenty, supplement with Creatine, Beta Alanine, Arginine, BCAAs, any of the above.

Sleep- At least 7 hours of quality sleep. If you have trouble sleeping, take 30mg of L-OptiZinc an hour before bed.

If you follow the above advice that should cover about 90% of it. It also depends on what kind of soreness you're talking about. Stiff? Severe muscle pain? It's normal to go into the gym with some aches and pains, if that's all it is you just gotta flush the sand out of your vagina and push through