exhausten or sore

When you feel pain, it might be time to stop doing whatever it is you're doing. Think of it as your body crying uncle.

Well, here's my 2 cents worth.

Working out till the point of exhaustion each time is a swift way to burn yourself out and quitting the routine. Yes, if you do want to do exercise that raises your heart rate to get the health benefits, go for it, but there are recommended safety guidelines of how high you should push your heart rate up and for how long.

Working out to the point of real pain - well yeah, any new exercise is going to cause you to be sore but REAL pain....I dunno, to me that signals you are ignoring your body and potentially doing harm to it. As you get fitter you will find that you will be able to up the intensity of your workouts, thus you are progressing in training your body to be stronger and more flexible.

Weight loss is achieved through diet - health is enhanced by exercise/movement. Neither should be a chore and both should be doable, repeatable, enjoyable and sustainable.

Exhaustion while swimming kind of sounds... scary to me...

tenkides wrote: »

I am swimming every day for 80 min with flippers on.

Wow, that is a really long time to swim...ESPECIALLY with flippers. Why do you swim that long in the first place? It sounds like it gets painful after so long so why keep going? Seriously, I used to be a competitive swimmer and we only broke out the flippers for fun. 80 minutes with those on sounds like torture. If you're trying to gain some sort of muscle from this you shouldn't be swimming while sore. Muscles need time to recover in order to grow. Either way, you shouldn't be swimming if you're really that sore and exhausted. That's a great way to give yourself a leg cramp and drown or something.

tenkides wrote: »

Is it better to work past the pain til you're exhausted or just go til you're sore then stop? This is during the workout. Please and thank you for posting.

I am swimming every day for 80 min with flippers on.

I swim in a pond so it could be dangerous or at least inconvenient to get too tired. I will swim through a little pain in my back and knees. Of course I never swim to exhaustion on the way out, but gauge my stamina and let this determine when to turn around. I'd be fine with being pretty tired when I have 10 minutes or less left to go before I get back to shore but this only happens when I swim all the way to the end of the pond and back, about 60 minutes.

tenkides wrote: »

Can someone please answer my question?

Stop swimming when you're tired. Stop whatever you're doing if what you're doing causes pain.