Should I Workout If My Muscles Are Still Sore?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Many feel that you shouldn’t train the same muscle if it is still sore from the last time you hit it. They feel that in doing so you would be short-circuiting the recovery and muscle building process.
Is that the case?
Well, in all reality, there really isn’t any concrete information that says you shouldn’t, whether in studies or in the REAL WORLD. As a matter of fact, research from Edith Cowan University had individuals do 2 “negative” biceps workouts only 3 days apart.
They found that following the second “negative” workout, when the trainers were still sore, their biceps muscles had no more damage and recovered in the same amount of time as those that only did 1 workout.
So, don’t feel that you are stopping your muscle building progress if the muscle is still sore from the previous workout.