muscle pain

I would recommend that you wait until after you are no longer sore
after warming up. I generally feel that when my body is sore it is
busy repairing itself and too much work during this time can be
counterproductive. You can do other activities in the meantime. You
mention your arms and shoulders...., are your legs sore? If your legs
and back feel good then you can work them. If you are sore all over
then some stretching and cardio may be good to loosen you up.
I also tend toward leaness (I lose weight if I do not work out) and
have noticed that I get better results if I only lift weights two or
three times a week. I work out hard for an hour each time and I feel
it for a few days afterwards. Compound exercises are the way to go if
you want to get stronger in my opinion.

Good Luck,
James

That pain in the elbow will fade-dont do any work on it until the pain
has subsided- the "no pain no gain"adage is macho [censored], poster
above is write on the dollar-
btw Breaking wind is a good bowel loosener

JamesG said:

I would recommend that you wait until after you are no longer sore
after warming up. I generally feel that when my body is sore it is
busy repairing itself and too much work during this time can be
counterproductive. You can do other activities in the meantime. You
mention your arms and shoulders...., are your legs sore? If your legs
and back feel good then you can work them. If you are sore all over
then some stretching and cardio may be good to loosen you up.
I also tend toward leaness (I lose weight if I do not work out) and
have noticed that I get better results if I only lift weights two or
three times a week. I work out hard for an hour each time and I feel
it for a few days afterwards. Compound exercises are the way to go if
you want to get stronger in my opinion.

Good Luck,
James

14 Jun 2006 said:

I am new to weight training. As expected, after my first work out I was
sore the next day. My shoulders and upper arm ached. I know this is not
an injury kind of pain. But it has been 2 days.

When i started lifting, i had exactly this. It doesn't feel like an
injury, and it's also not the kind of warm soreness that you get after
working out really hard - right after the workout, you're fine, but the
next day, ouch, a sort of sharp pain, that's worse when you move. Is that
right? I noticed that i got this not only when i started, but whenever i
added a new exercise, or rather, a new muscle group, to my workout, and
that i stopped getting it a week or two after that. I assume it's related
to your body adapting to working hard, although i have no idea how - maybe
a signal from the cells that maintain your connective tissue saying "Whoa!
Don't do that again until we get ready for this!".

Quoted message said:

How long do I wait before I hit the gym again. Should I wait till the
pain goes away completely or can I go back when I feel I can lift
weights again. Right now its pretty bad, it hurts even if I bend my
elbow.

ISTR reading that the pain isn't related to your body's recovery (there's
a study - someone here must have the reference), so i stuck to two days'
recuperation after lifting, despite the pain. I'm still alive, uninjured
(no health issues, Curt!), and lifting happily and without pain. Still,
right at the start, when the pain is worst, i don't think you need to push
yourself too hard - wait it out, and go again when you feel comfortable
about it. That said, i actually found the lifting actually helped get rid
of the pain, although of course it was only temporary.

In fact, in the last week, i've been getting some sort of mild muscular
ache, sort of a tight feeling, in my upper back after lifting, and it
really makes we want to go and do bent-over rows to get rid of it, but i
know that would do me no good at all - lift, eat, lift doesn't work half
as well as lift, eat, rest.

IANAdoctor, though, so if you go back to the gym and you tear your arms
off, don't come running to me.

tom

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Suspicion Breeds Confidence

Tom Anderson <[email hidden]> wrote:

[...]

Quoted message said:

I'm still alive, uninjured (no health issues, Curt!), and lifting happily
and without pain.

You're REALLY ticking me off... Mr. Anderson.

Seriously, I'm glad to read that news (the "no health issues" part).

[...]

Quoted message said:

<snip>if you go back to the gym and you tear your arms off,
don't come running to me.

tom

I'm boiling with rage as I sit here typing with my toes...

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Curt
http://curtjames.com/