^Never said it makes you feel awesome, said it "Makes you feel it makes you stronger and fitter at the same time". Add that to 2 weeks of zero training and doing lunges for the first time in over a year and you've got the crazy legs DOMS equation working. 
Besides joking, i love how intense this program is, makes you feel awesome AFTER, but during it it's pure hell. Worse part is right after the 1st superset of lunges-pullups. HR is stabilized in +170 after sets +150 before, muscle fatigue kicks in good from the 5 supersets done so far, yet you are not even halfway done. At that time i feel i want to puke, cry like a baby and rage-smash everything, all at the same time. But at the end the reward feeling is awesome. Should be kinda similar to distance running, no?
yeah definitely. trying to run faster than you normally do, ie in race situations or trying to push yourself in training, is just pure hell. It really isn't fun at all, to me at least. The end result though, feels amazing. Hitting those PR's or winning races, makes you forget the pain for a second. I personally can't think of any lifting session which has come close to that. The only thing that's come close for me, was hard sparring in boxing, against someone who is trying to kill you round after round. That's a kind of hell, but you don't really think about quitting - there's no time to think about it. You just exist, defend, attack, survive until it's over. I think i've said in previous posts in my journal, that one of the keys to becoming faster is to try and acknowledge that quit voice when it comes, and realize that's when the game starts. You can tell if you're really pushing yourself simply by how loud that voice becomes. Running faster, relative to the individual, is in many parts mental warfare.
Dunk/vert training is just much more fun.. the process of achieving PR's itself is similarly difficult/grueling, (edit: harder to perceive and achieve vert progress, we don't measure millimeters, and even if we did, they don't matter as much as seconds), but, the enjoyment factor of the process is waaaay better than running. Vert training for the most part is pretty damn fun. Even these kinds of GPP circuits or MEBM sets etc, are grueling but fun.
Running fast, to me, is just non stop hell. I mean, when all your brain is doing is telling you to quit, and you just have to keep going, hard for that to be fun.
Compare that to a dunk session.. "just one more dunk" x 100. Legs dead, but still testing to see if you can get some juice back. Much more enjoyable IMHO hah.
SQUAT/MEBM related DOMS is on another level though.. Never experienced anything close to that with distance running training. The only thing that was equivalent, was high volume bodyweight lunges - which is incredible when you think about it. I remember not even a year ago, having extreme soreness for over 7 days from high rep BW walking lunges. I'd only expect to experience something like that in lifting, when incorporating MEBM out of nowhere or an equivalent high volume set/rep scheme like 10x10, without working up to it.
Interesting how the DOMS from running/sprinting isn't really comparable to vert training, at least in my experience.
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24 July 2017
Bodyweight@session : ~86kg
Soreness : legs everywhere 4.5/5. Lats traps shoulders and abs also sore but normal, 2.5/5
Injuries/aches : none
T0DDDAY'S GPP
SUPERSET 1 - ATG SQUAT ++ OHP:
6@65kg ++ 8@35kg
6@65kg ++ 8@35kg
6@65kg ++ 8@35kg
6@65kg ++ 8@35kg
-Legs are much stronger than 65kg but also too sore to try. OHP 4x8 at this weight is around limit strength.
SUPERSET 2 - DB LUNGES ++ PULLUPS:
6 each leg @ 14kg each hand ++ 8
6 each leg @ 14kg each hand ++ 8
6 each leg @ 14kg each hand ++ 8 ( +1 rep )
6 each leg @ 14kg each hand ++ 7 ( +1 rep )
-Turns out it was the lunges that destroyed my legs. Every muscle contracted during them hurt crazy, which was not the case in squats.
Good progress in pullups. Nearly 4x8 in such a fatigued state is something i can be proud of.
SUPERSET 3 - RDL ++ LEG RAISE:
18@50kg ( +3 reps ) ++ 15
15@60kg ( +2 reps ) ++ 15
10@70kg ++ 15
5@80kg ++ 15
-Adapting to high-rep RDL. Top set is rather easy, might up.
Used same loads everywhere because of DOMS. Might up tomorrow. Just 2 workouts left so doesn't make a big difference anyway.
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