Trying out plant-based (mix of hemp, pea, rice) protein powder, so far my muscles hurt more than with whey protein isolate but still much less than in the old days when I did nothing. Could easily be a blip though! Either way I have a new whey isolate on my list to try too. 
Oh, but that's still a workout! Nice. I'm a full-time pescitarian 100% for 2 years (before that once-a-week I ate chicken, and before that I used to eat red meat). I do gym and bouldering and the DOMS from both was out of this world for months. Like literally walking like Kryten.
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Your protein shake should have BCAAs regardless to that would help for recovery, but I think it's important to take them in pure form (pills or drink, just going off my memory of the research) before/during/after exercise to get the real effects.
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I do pills before and after (during is too much to organise) because I fear the drink will taste too sweet.

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Why do you think your DOMS is so prolonged/hard?
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I think people who have lower testosterone store less sugar in their muscles, not sure but something like that? So I think my muscles are just particularly bad at having stores of energy and they really do not sustain exercise without extra help (pills, etc)...
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I have periods where if I haven't eaten even after a few hours (depends what and how much I ate of course) I feel genuinely faint and NEED to eat. I am generally quite small/thin so I can see how there might not be a lot of space to store energy in my muscles.

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My strength is getting out of control though so much so that I often break stuff w/out realising. I can arm press more than half my weight, so it's a little weird when people realise as like I said I'm not hypertrophic/super pumped (what people typically think strong looks like).
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Today the plumber was round and he asked me to pull someth and I assumed it was going to be really hard so I used my whole arm strength and I basically almost broke the seal of the tap he installed in the bath. he was like OMG you are so strong, this is just an acrylic bath.
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Part time vegetarian here. I do it for a few weeks then quit but my diet is mainly plant based