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Originally Posted by MeLoveYouLongTime
I over did it on Sunday at the gym. I'm so sore and barley able to walk.
This should be obvious, but you know the soreness is due to doing exercises that your body is unfamiliar with yes? And 'unfamiliar' can be not doing squatz for 4 weeks too. This goes double for lifts with an eccentric portion (muscles lengthening under load) like squats. A way around it is to not go balls to the wall the first time back/ever, then increase the load.
Either way, it'll be much better the second time - and the lesson learned is certainly not "don't go as hard ever". And btw, being sore is a terrible indicator of the effect of a lifting day. Again, just in case you didn't know.