When You Get Hurt

So if you lift or run, or workout in general long enough eventually something will get hurt.  A pull, a strain, a sprain.  It’s common.  It happens.

So what do you do in those circumstances?  Do you rest, do you push through the pain?  Well you may want to do both.

It’s easy to automatically think that when you get hurt, you should just stop. But this isn’t necessary nor good.

First off, you know your body.  You know how serious the injury is.  You know how fast you heal, and how bad the pain really is.  Let’s say you pull something in your leg and you are a runner.  You probably can still do something like the elliptical that takes strain off the leg.  Or you can definitely do upper body workouts.

If you lift, and you hurt something in your chest or arm, you can workout other muscle groups, and depending on the severity continue to work out those muscle groups, just with much lighter weight.

Because working out is a habit, you don’t want to just stop working out completely, then you will get out of the habit, and by the time you are healed you may not have the motivation to start up again.

Remember don’t push the injured area, work around it, that way you rest it but still get in some workouts.