Is it good to exercise while the muscles are aching, or is it better to let them heal?

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If you don't let them heal, they can't heal The goal is to grow the muscles, not to inflict maximum damage. The body can't build new muscle if you don't give it time to heal. Keep overdoing the same muscles and it won't be able to keep up.

You run the risk of an overtraining injury: you can make the muscles so torn up that you can't compensate for other forms of damage. Put a foot down wrong and you can tear a ligament when your muscles would ordinarily have kept things together. Or you might do damage to cartilage because it's taking up strain that ordinarily your muscles would have taken.It's generally recommended that you work one set of body parts each day.

There are a number of schemes you can use (upper/lower, push/pull). But your abs recover quickly, so you really can do crunches every day. I hate crunches.

Don't work sore muscle Muscles grow as an adaptive response to stress. You stress them more than they have been accustomed to and actually break down the muscle... damage it. You are telling your body you need more strenght... that you can't do the work at hand and you body gives you more by building them back even stronger than they were before.

You do the breakdown work in the gym... the build up work happens while you sleep... while you relax. You don't want to break down your muscles again before they have recovered or you will see no gains. Work different muscles on adjoining days and don't work a muscle that is sore other than some very light work to stretch the muscle out and improve circulation.

Sources: My Head.

Depends on your body Some people's bodies can take more wear and tear then others but the generally rule is you do have to give them time to rest so you can get the maximum result. For minor aches 24 hours is good (Like after very heavy cardio workouts or light weight training workouts). For ones that hurt like after lifting heavy weight 2-3 days is good.

Sources: My learning experiance .

Pace Yourself The best answer I can give you is yeah...exercise everyday. What you do everyday may differ. First off... eat lots of protein, they help the muscle recorver.

The more the better. It takes your muscles about 24 hours to heal. Differ your workouts everyday.

Make a workout schedule so you can work different muscles everyday and are not working the same muscles within a 24 hour peroid. Personally I have a workout where I work chest and tri on one day, back and biceps on another and shoulder and legs another. This is because when you do the main core workouts, each muscle group is worked together.

Have day where you go light weight and high reps, and other where its all about lifting as much as you can. As far as running, there is a really fine line between sore and tearing muscles. If you are not accustomed to running 3-5 miles everyday...don't get up and go run 5 miles 3 days in a row.

I like to look at running as a builing process. Yes, you should run when your muscles ache, but if you feel sharp pains, stop running as far and as fast. Pace yourself to where you just get your heartrate up but not to where you feel strain.

When you feel stronger, you may up the distance. Have a workout schedule. Like I said, it takes your mucles about 24 hours to heal so don't work out in the evening, get up and workout again.

THERE IS ONE ACCEPTION! You never specified whether you wanted to build bulkey muscle like me... or lean muscle. To build lean muscle, you have to work out everyday and absolutely destroy your muscles by running and doing tons of reps.

Otherwise do about equal amounts of lifting and running.

You shouldn't exercise to trauma in the first place. If you are injured, you have to heal first, or you could compound the injury. Sources: LMT training..

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