What Do You Do With Pain?

So you’ve got some muscle pain.  Maybe it’s been ongoing, maybe this week it just started.  How do you continue working out while not injuring yourself further?  It’s a fine line.  Your muscles when pushed sometimes get strained a little too much.  It happens.  If you spend any kind of considerable time in the gym or pounding the payment, soreness will come.

I was having a conversation with a guy at the gym today about this very thing.  We are both dealing with pain that isn’t typical muscle soreness, and we were both working out anyway.

I think it’s very important to stay in the gym even if you are in pain.  Now I’m not saying to push that muscle or body group, go easy on it, but still do some light workouts on it, and make sure you workout other muscle groups.

It’s really easy to just stop working out and claim that your body needs rest, and then completely get out of the routine. Don’t fall into this trap.  Do some research on the pain, but work through it, gently yes, but still work through it, push through it. Your body can withstand a lot.