If your sore from lifting the next day does that mean the lifting worked?!
Question: It means that your muscles needed to rid themselves of lactic acid that was built up because those muscles weren't used to being exercised that way.
This often happens to people who take up weightlifting as a new hobby, as well as people who hadn't been lifting in a while.
Give those muscles a few days of rest, and then when you're up to putting them through a weightlifting workout again, go for it -- but make sure you warm up with calisthetics before lifting, and MAKE SURE YOU STRETCH THOSE MUSCLES OUT REAL GOOD AFTER LIFTING.
So many people, after they lift, just walk off the exercise floor and hit the locker room, without stretching. BIG mistake!
Within a workout or two (leaving a few days of rest in between at the beginning), your muscles should stop being so sore, because you will have burned off the lactic acid that was there.
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Answers: It means that your muscles needed to rid themselves of lactic acid that was built up because those muscles weren't used to being exercised that way.
This often happens to people who take up weightlifting as a new hobby, as well as people who hadn't been lifting in a while.
Give those muscles a few days of rest, and then when you're up to putting them through a weightlifting workout again, go for it -- but make sure you warm up with calisthetics before lifting, and MAKE SURE YOU STRETCH THOSE MUSCLES OUT REAL GOOD AFTER LIFTING.
So many people, after they lift, just walk off the exercise floor and hit the locker room, without stretching. BIG mistake!
Within a workout or two (leaving a few days of rest in between at the beginning), your muscles should stop being so sore, because you will have burned off the lactic acid that was there.
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Not really. It usually means your body isn't used to it. It's not a bad thing, but if you lift consistently, you normally won't be sore.
Love Jack
If u r sore it is because you have not used those muscles for a while. Keep the lifting up and it will get better. Take it slow though so u don't hurt yourself. Hope this helped you.
NO, SORENESS IS NOT A GOOD INDICATOR IF YOU HAD A GOOD WORKOUT, IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU DAMAGED MUSCLE FIBERS, THE MUSCLE DID SOMETHING IT WASN'T USED TO DOING. FOR A WORKOUT TO WORK, YOU HAVE TO OVERLOAD THE MUSCLE, EITHER WITH WEIGHT, REPS, OR INTENSITY. SORENESS IS NOT A REQUISITE.