Lifting
hardcore feels amazing. Soreness and
pain are the aiming points for gains, letting you know that you’ve worked
hard. Your biceps feel like they are
stretching your skin to the point of tearing.
Your chest feels like you are going to rip your shirt. And your legs make you feel like running
three miles in a minute. These are all
the effects of a long hard workout but it usually results to soreness and pain
in the morning.
This
is normal and is a result of your muscles breaking down their fibers and
releasing amino acids. This can become
one of the best things that can happen to you in weightlifting because as your
muscles break down
and are soon replenished with proteins, sugars, and rest, they grow to become
bigger and stronger. And who doesn’t want that.
This is a huge part of why getting food, mostly proteins, is extremely
significant in order to get gains.
Now, pain really is gain, but if you
continue to weightlift even after you feel the amazing feel-good pain, it’s a
horrible idea to work it again the next day or even the rest of the week. The only exception to this is if you lightly
work the area for just a few minutes.
Let’s say that you decide to work biceps for your workout that day and
that night and the next morning you feel soreness and tenseness. The last thing you want to do is to re-work
your biceps the next day. The reason for
this is because it could, instead of breaking fibers to regrow muscles and get
stronger, it will instead break them down farther to the point of actually
overworking them and losing mass. And no
one wants that.
So the next time your old grandpa
that used to lift tells you that you really haven’t done anything to your
muscles if they don’t feel like they’re going to fall off, he’s not crazy. Remember, we’re all in this together, keep
your stick on the ice.
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