When you’re highly physical daily you don’t get meaningfully sore.
At worst it’s a moderate level of soreness, it doesn’t grow higher, and stays with you a few days at most before dissipating away.
This moderate level of soreness is often functionally a level of muscular activation, a walking around “warmed up”, that actually has you stronger while it’s there.
“I can’t walk/I can’t raise my arms” type soreness doesn’t really exist for those who train daily.
Human as designed is primal which requires a high level of physicality.
Many take 3-4 days off a week, this is an unacceptable amount, possibly an acceptable number over the course of 6 months to a year, and even then my “off day” still has me hitting my pushup PT to keep the daily streak alive.
The average person doesn’t have any comprehension of how to push themselves physically nor any understanding of what physicality they are truly capable of.
Most soreness is ignorable. Something buggy on me is always the John Broz concept of “floating pain”, ignorable, and will be fine the next day, or a few days later at most.
I don’t support off days, most especially for the beginner, for youth, and for those who don’t truly know how to push or train hard.
One must do a ton of work starting out, it’s the base in which you become capable of both doing a ton of work, and actually having the ability to train up to a peak.
Nothing is more comical than the 250lb+ beginner (shout out to “weaksauce” no weakling has ever brought me such amusement instead of annoyance like you do) peaking to a 315lb powerlifting meet squat 1rm.
Do your volume, and do it daily.
It’s what you need. Days off are not. Get it!
Persistence & Tenacity