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The harder you train the less often you can train. Muscle soreness is a good indicator you have torn some deep good muscle fibers. As we know tearing fibers ( I am sure you gurus will argue the finer points of physiology) and the rebuilding of fibers somewhat like the bodybuilding scar tissue is the basics behind buiding muscle mass. The body is forced to grow or die in a nut shell.
I have read where trainees say that they experiance no soreness a few days later. I have a gut feeling they didnt go all out. In this case the bodies need to develop or adapt hasnt happened. I also have a feeling these guys are probably not getting a hole lot larger.
I know that is my goal is to build mass. I believe that for most folks you got to have the clay before you can mold it. I know lots of you guys like to read training articles so read some articles by a guy that I always felt had some worthy ideas Mike Mentzer. He was a pretty sharp character in his day. I think his ideas had and still have allot of merit. I think with the rampid use of Steroids by new bodybuilders, his ideas have fallen to the waist side. Steriod users recover super fast and their goal is to pump as much steroid saturated blood into their muscles as possible. Hence the high volume high rep nonscense they blab about.