over working legs

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I am 42 years old and I have to say hst is great this is the first time ever in my life that I have seen results while lifting weights. My question is I go hiking 1 day on weekends which involves 8-12 hours using my legs with some really steep climbing its usually enough to make my legs sore for a couple days. I don't want to quite hiking or lifting, whats the best compromise I am thinking skip the next workout after a day of hiking or should I do the workout with my sore legs.
Any ideas advise appreciated

Rick
 
Rick, that's some hike!
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I would think that as long a you are able to eat plenty of extra calories to make up for what you burn off during the 8-12 hours hiking and are able to get plenty of rest afterwards you should be good to go. As long as your legs are just sore from DOMS that's OK. Assuming it's not so serious that you can't walk, try it and see how you get on. If you find that you really hate training legs the w/o after hiking then just do everything else and leave legs until the following session. You will still be hitting them twice a week in the gym.
 
Like Lol said, just skip legs the next session and only do everything else. I would try to do them anyway, but if you find it is effecting your strength, then you'd better not just to be safe. You don't want to fail in the middle of a squat.
 
Those answers are good. I go dance/skating on the weekends and sort of schedule that around my workouts, or my workouts around that. If I have to workout after a skate session, like the next day...I'll skip calves and quads and only do hams. After hiking, I'd say you should skip it all, since that involves total legwork, unless you just do like leg extensions for quads, since they got the least work. And I'd limit that to one set too.
 
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