Soo sore!

I remember my first 2 weeks on an intense program i could hardly move! Then after that each week got a bit better. But pushing through those weeks and doing what you can, even if you have to modify, is creating a great foundation. Good luck u can do this!

Allow yourself some extra rest days in the beginning. Light exercise can help in the meantime as it will circulate blood (and therefore nutrients) to those areas. Within a couple weeks, your muscles will be much better adapted and equipped to handle the workload. Most importantly, don’t let it discourage you!

After many years of not working out, I started a pretty intense program. I was soooo sore I couldn’t even walk down the stairs at work so started taking the elevator down 1 flight!! My coworkers all teased me saying I was defeating the purpose of working out.
After a few weeks it wasn’t as bad but I still get soreness after certain workouts.
One thing that helped me a lot was I bought a foam roller (cheapo one at Five Below). I’d roll out whenever I could and the soreness gets better right away. It feels better for a couple of hours but the soreness comes back. It especially helps the butt and legs.

jenniferkaye22 wrote: »

So I started working out yesterday was my 2nd day. The program I’m doing does warm up exercises and does a cool down at the end. My body is sooo sore! How are you suppose to keep working out and do the exercises when your body is sore? Any tips on to treat the soreness

DOMs is normal and will get better...that said, a common mistake people make getting into fitness is going from basically nothing to working out all of the days...and often, an overly strenuous workload. Fitness is definitely something that is built brick by brick. I would recommend easing into things a bit and taking more recovery time where you could just do some low intensity activity like walking or yoga and just build things up.

I'm relatively in shape, but I've been out of the game for a few months with injury and just starting back...I'm definitely not trying to start where I left off...I will have to build that back up and ease into things. If you're so sore that you can't really do normal daily things, you're doing too much too soon IMO.

jenniferkaye22 wrote: »

My legs hurt my stomach hurts (from working out) my butt hurts. Unfortunately I have steps in my house and it’s torture to go and up and down them it hurts to bend down.. anything that deals with that basically it hurts. Also this morning I woke up soo stiff and my body hurt worse today than yesterday. I might just do some upper body stuff today just give my lower body a rest.

IDK you're experience with fitness or the program you did so keep that in mind but:

When I train clients that have been very sedentary and have desk jobs I typically start them out on a very basic workout the first couple of weeks. Even more so if they're over 40.

Typically, lifts will be 1-2 sets with light weights for 15-20 reps. The problem with these types of folks are they they are so deconditioned that a typical program for 3-4 sets, 5-10 reps will absolutely destroy them needlessly. It doesn't do a lot of good to make someone so sore they can hardly move for a week on the first workout. Chances are they will want to quit. Doing light weight and high reps for these folks will be beneficial because it will get muscular endurance up so that they can handle a workout that is better for strength and building muscle.

I will typically have them do 3 day split or fullbody, program 1-2 sets, 15-20 reps= cardio for first couple of weeks then see where they're at and maybe we start lowering reps, increasing weight and adding sets as appropriate. Not that I try to avoid them getting sore, that's normal, but I don't want to seem my clients waddling into the gym two days later with restricted ROM and unable to do the next workout.

Of course if the initial assessment shows they are probably capable of doing a traditional workout then I will start with that but some people just aren't ready for that. It's also a risk of injury because the CNS and skeletal systems aren't adapted yet.