Soreness, Training, and Practice | Mark Rippetoe

[chrisw12]

Ah interesting, thanks. I've been dropping to the hang position first. Sadly, I work out in a commercial gym so they'd kick me out if I dropped the bar.

Any tips on how to minimise soreness if I have to go to the hang position (short of changing gym, which isn't an option due to cost)? Maybe if I get my legs to take more of the strain when I drop the bar into the hang position?

[stef]

Ah interesting, thanks. I've been dropping to the hang position first.

Well, it's a bunch of extra eccentric work you're adding, exactly the sort of deal where you expect to be sore while you're still unadapted to it.

[Phil Lewis]

So happy to have found this article. I’m in week 2 of the program, and was wondering if lack of DOMS after the first couple of sessions meant I wasn’t going hard enough. I got my starting weights by stopping when form started to fail, and have increased each session since, so hopefully ok.