How sore is too sore?

thistimereally
thistimereally Posts: 74 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Just joined a gym 2 days ago. Went Monday and yesterday, today woke up feeling like a giant bruise so I skipped it. Feeling discouraged with myself, wondering if I shouldn't have skipped, how do you deal with soreness?

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  • katie2400
    katie2400 Posts: 78 Member
    I'm no expert.. but what did you train? soreness effects everyone differently depending on how hard you train, form, etc. i always get sore the 2nd day after i lift.. I still go to the gym when sore, but i'm training a different body part. Stretching before and after also helps, foam rolling is even better. warm up before you workout as well. Just keep at it!
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    You move, or the next day it will be worse. Just go for a walk, or a relaxed swim etc, nothing intense.
  • thistimereally
    thistimereally Posts: 74 Member
    katie2400 wrote: »
    I'm no expert.. but what did you train? soreness effects everyone differently depending on how hard you train, form, etc. i always get sore the 2nd day after i lift.. I still go to the gym when sore, but i'm training a different body part. Stretching before and after also helps, foam rolling is even better. warm up before you workout as well. Just keep at it!

    Monday I did 7 miles total between the treadmill and an evening walk to enjoy the weather. Yesterday I did 3 miles on the treadmill and 3 different arm/chest machines. Maybe it's because I'm so out of shape it feels like its hitting me hard I don't know haha. My job has some moving/lifting and I was scared I would be really useless at work today if I went. Got to suck it up and go tomorrow!
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    I had a personal trainer for a month (free program through work, huzzah!) and she said I should feel sore for no more than 2 days, and if it went on longer then I worked out to hard. Granted, I did not lift of do weight raining, I was doing core training.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    The second day after is always worse- you should definitely either go to the gym- or go for a walk and do some basic stretching after you've gotten some blood flowing.

    Any time you do anything distinctly different from your regular routine you're going to be sore- the solution for this is to keep doing more of it. Stopping won't help.

    I wouldn't go back and go HAM- but at least go back and do SOMETHING.
  • diezel67
    diezel67 Posts: 97 Member
    Get the blood back into the muscles. Don't give up it is way worth it with the workouts and mfp!
  • genpopadopolous
    genpopadopolous Posts: 411 Member
    Once I get warmed up I'm usually fine, but I don't usually hit the same muscle groups back to back.

    If I'm feeling so sore that I really don't think I can workout- then I do a nice quick walk for 3 or so miles. Get the blood pumping and work that lactic acid out of the muscles.

    And hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!!
  • thistimereally
    thistimereally Posts: 74 Member
    Thanks everybody. If the weather stays nice I'll go for a walk tonight and definitely hit the gym tomorrow!
  • cdkelly
    cdkelly Posts: 101 Member
    I'm very sore today after 4 days in a row of intense workouts. Body needs some rest so today I will go for a long walk or decent jog. The more I move around the more I loosen up and feel less sore.
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