Workouts Should Improve Your Pain
Your workouts should leave you feeling better.
Yes they should be challenging. Yes they should require effort.
But they should not make you experience more pain.
They should improve it.
If your workouts are leaving you in additional pain, something needs to change.
If your knees start to hurt while running, your back starts to hurt squatting, or your shoulders start to hurt with pushups, then something needs to change.
This isn’t to say that pain is bad. Pain will happen. You can train with pain. But thresholds are important.
If your pain starts at 4/10, we want to keep it there, or even better improve it.
Worse is not better.
If your workouts are leaving you in more pain here are some steps you can take.
1. Find a coach who can assess how you move and evaluate what your training is like. Maybe you have some areas of your body that could use some additional attention in your training. Or maybe you have some things that you have been doing too much of and you need a break.
2. Prioritize your recovery. This includes sleep and nutrition.
3. Listen to your body. Maybe you start a workout using a 20 pound weight, but your pain worsens. Try a lighter weight, see if that feels better.
