Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Of course. But if you are exercising untrained muscles which you use in an unfamiliar activity, or unfamiliar level of activity, the soreness is completely normal and expected. Your initial gains will be very slow otherwise.
Yes, it's almost always the unfamiliar activity that leads to DOMS.
But soreness itself hasn't been a desirable goal (your earlier post) to me. I don't feel like my workout is a failure if I'm not all that sore the next day.