Here’s How Ya Avoid Cement Legs
I get a lot of questions asking how to avoid cement legs on the ice after a lower body workout…
I’ll answer this today so you’ll have 1 less thing to worry about in your training.
The two biggest culprits behind muscle soreness are:
1. High training volume (especially if you jump straight to high volume workouts without gradually increasing training volume over time)
2. Slow negatives (on a squat, this would be the part where you descend)
Combine those two in a training session and you’ll be on the verge of crawling to the wellness center and requesting a wheel chair.
While I use both of them (sparingly!) in the off-season, you’ll want to decrease overall volume and drop the slow negatives once you transition into in-season training.
No player wants to step on the ice with heavy legs during hockey season.
What’s funny is that muscle soreness has ZERO correlation with improving strength or athletic performance by itself.
If that were the case, every numbnut you see doing 20+ sets per body part each workout or following P90X would be the strongest, fastest dudes on the ice.
Obviously that ain’t happening.
Training programs and methods that thrive on making you feel sore mask their failure to make you BETTER.
Simply put, the true mark of a great training program is not subsequent muscle soreness.
It’s when you’re hitting new PR’s week after week that you have found a winning plan.
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