Exercise is GOOD for you?!

[BarelySeeAtAll]

It's not meant to hurt so much >_< Worked out [to Evanescence ] for a while yesterday for the first time in a long while and I woke up this morning positively aching on my shoulder blades and chest. One aerobics session, we used weights..next day I could NOT lift my arms.

Anyone else ever stupidly gone to great lengths to get fit or w/e and left you feeling absolutely, stupidly, pained?

[Melissaur]

Yes. Since I've been preggo, I've been trying to exercise so it'll be easier once I have the baby, but OMG I JUST CAN'T DO IT! ;_; The first day I did 50 squats *Zach Fair style* and went on a 30 minute walk. I also did 50 arm curls, 50 arm extensions, and 20 sit-ups (>_<) and the next morning I could not walk up and down the stairs, nor could I lift anything weighing more then 0 pounds.

[Moon Rabbits]

I don't do weight training because it is way too repetitive for me to want to bother.

I do yoga erryday, though, and depending on how long of a flow I do I can be left pretty pained. Usually my spine, upper arms, and thighs are what get stretched / hurt the most.

[Badge]

Doing martial arts for 7 years, you get used to the pain....

[Faris]

When I did go to the gym more frequently (I fell out of habit due to a back spasm) I felt great after. Of course the first few days are hard but it's something that gets easier as you do it more.

[Raistlin]

I played soccer in high school, and late August when practice started would absolutely kill me, every year. My whole body would be sore for days, because I did absolutely nothing over the summer.

I get a little bit of exercise now (exclusively cardio), but nothing to that extent.

[Shlup]

BJ and I exercise every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. We do cardio and then aerobics and weights in our garage. Now that he's working full time I'm trying to find a way to add yoga into my daily housewifey routine.

I like super soreness after working out. It shows that your efforts weren't wasted.

[Bastian]

Anytime you work out any muscle that is unused to being worked out, it will be sore the next day or two. The more often you work out said muscle the less it will be sore.

Conversely, anytime I'm NOT sore the day after lifting, I know I didn't hit it hard enough.

[Breine]

I like super soreness after working out. It shows that your efforts weren't wasted.

Yes. My thoughts exactly.

Some years ago I used to go to the gym with a friend of mine, and we'd try to be super masculine and do the whole weight training thing. It was fine and all, but I remember that I definitely could feel it the day after the first couple of times.
The key thing is to streeeeeeetch after your workout.

[Mirage]

As far as I'm concerned, muscle soreness after not working out for a long time is just the body telling you that you really need to be more active.

Or you could have done some exercises somewhat wrong, or you started with too hard stuff considering your earlier inactivity.

I also don't notice a mentionable difference in soreness depending on having stretched out afterwards or not. It does have an impact on flexibility though.

[G13]

If it doesn't hurt it's not working.

[Levian]

When you work out, the muscle gods get angry and you will need to either eat chocolate or sacrifice an eel to appease them. Chocolate aren't as slippery as eels, making them much easier to catch, so that's usually the route I take.

[Melissaur]

OMG that's the best after workout advice I have ever heard.

[KuRt]

Because i've been mostly nerding for the last two years i started doing pushups a few weeks ago to open my shoulders. I was amazed it started to hurt so quickly because I can do a seires of 80kg weight lifting and that doesnt hurt my shoulders/shoulder blades NEARLY as much as 40 pushups. Also i've been running 5-10km almost every day now for the last four months but it seems whenever I play Stepmania/Dance Dance Revolution it starts to hurt the front of my shins as in the muscles there were overused. Altho there are no muscles in the front of the shin between the bone and the skin

[Mirage]

Are you sure there are no muscles in the front of the shin? I'm pretty sure I've felt one.