On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, Jessica and I share our opposing answers on the following viewer question, should I workout when I’m sore?
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Nora Andersen on Facebook asks: should I workout when I’m sore? I am referring to the type of pain from having really sore muscles?
Here is Jessica’s advice on muscle soreness and recovery:
If you’re suffering from really sore muscles the day after your workout, you should allow some recovery time. Having sore muscles is a normal part of your training, since during the workout, your muscles have been torn and broken down.
But don’t worry, this is a good thing as muscle breakdown is a necessary part of the muscle building process. However, another major part of the muscle building process is allowing for sufficient muscle recovery.
If you never never let your muscles properly recover, you are going to extend that muscle soreness for longer than it needs to be. You are also potentially not giving your body a chance to repair and rebuild stronger, which is the goal of your workouts.
Again, a major part of the game of building muscle is having sufficient recovery. Recovery is so important, and often so overlooked when it comes to muscle building.
If you just continuously go the gym and tear down your muscles, you are going to eventually hit a wall where you just can’t train anymore. This is often referred to as overtraining.
Therefore, it’s much better to build in rest days, to allow for proper recovery. Working out should be a part of an overall healthy lifestyle, that you follow for the rest of your life. It’s not something you just do once or for a short period of time.
Again, fitness and health is a life long lifestyle. So it’s a good, but not necessary sign, if you feel sore after your workouts.
If your muscles are really sore the next day, rather than working through the pain every single day, take a day or two off to recover. Then after you’re recovered, get back to your workouts
Here is Brad’s advice on muscle soreness and recovery:
Although everything Jessica said was bang on, I’m just going to put a little asterisks beside her answer, because it’s all specific to the individual.
For example, if you are brand new to fitness, after your first resistance training workout, you will be freaking sore. Now does that mean you have to take four days off before you train again because you’re still sore? Absolutely not.
One of the ways to reduce muscle soreness and speed up muscle recovery, is to increase blood flow. When your muscles are sore, you need to get more blood flowing to muscle, to help reduce muscle soreness. One way to increase blood flow to reduce sore muscles is to work that muscle out.
For example, if after your chest workout, your muscles in your chest are sore, do some push ups. By completing a bodyweight chest exercise like push ups will increase blood flow to the sore muscles in your chest, and help reduce muscle soreness.
Recovery days are important when you have extreme muscle soreness. However, if you’re feeling a little bit sore, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t workout. Sometimes you should work through the pain, i.e. minor muscle soreness.
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