Question About Soreness

[DarkLord]

I did those heavy hack squats on Sunday and my legs are still a bit sore. I trained my biceps a bit heavier yesterday and thery are sore but my back isn't from deadlifting. Neither are my lats from pulldowns. Have I gone to intensly on the areas that are sore? More to the point are the areas that are sore, simply didn't get enough protein?

[threenorns]

nope - they're just parts of your body that get sore.

[maverick]

There's very little argument for the fact that soreness relates to muscle growth, and all those arguments are correlations, not direct physiological reasons. Don't worry about soreness. I personally like having sore muscles cause then I know I hit my target areas (particularly with tough ones like lats), but I know that doesn't dictate that it was an intense workout. If you are desiring DOMS for a particular muscle, extremely slow negatives will get you there no problem.