Whats up? I am a 21 year old Junior excercise science major at the University of Kentucky. I am finally getting around to making an account on here, but I have used the site for advice for awhile now. I enjoy MMA, powerlifting, and sports enhancement… esspecially for football and baseball. I am also getting ready to take the NSCA C.S.C.S. in June so if anyone wants to talk about any of that shit hit me up.
So here is my question. We had a discussion in class about the benifits of lifting when experiencing muscle soreness. The professor says that lifting or training while sore offers the body almost no benefits. He said the only benefit he could come up with was that in sport training situations it may train the body to work while it is tired, as it would in a game situation.
I really dont have much of an opinion on this, except in terms of rebuilding torn muscle. If you are breaking down the muscle you can’t be building it at the same time… correct?
Just wanted your feelings on this because alot of coaches have athletes train under soreness. “Work the soreness out” is commonly heard in highschool weight training settings. Just thought I would get some opinions on this.
If you have been training previously, soreness = under nourished. Go ahead and work through it, but up your nutrients for recovery.
Not previous trainees, soreness is a fact of life. They should not work through it in my opinion. I keep my new clients away from working through soreness.
[quote]uk2007 wrote:
Whats up? I am a 21 year old Junior excercise science major at the University of Kentucky. I am finally getting around to making an account on here, but I have used the site for advice for awhile now. I enjoy MMA, powerlifting, and sports enhancement… esspecially for football and baseball. I am also getting ready to take the NSCA C.S.C.S. in June so if anyone wants to talk about any of that shit hit me up.
So here is my question. We had a discussion in class about the benifits of lifting when experiencing muscle soreness. The professor says that lifting or training while sore offers the body almost no benefits. He said the only benefit he could come up with was that in sport training situations it may train the body to work while it is tired, as it would in a game situation.
I really dont have much of an opinion on this, except in terms of rebuilding torn muscle. If you are breaking down the muscle you can’t be building it at the same time… correct?
Just wanted your feelings on this because alot of coaches have athletes train under soreness. “Work the soreness out” is commonly heard in highschool weight training settings. Just thought I would get some opinions on this. [/quote]
why not? as long as the nervous system isn’t taxed can’t you keep working out? besides the soreness could be because of lactic acid too right? working out would help flush the area. just my opinion.
As far as flushing the area of lactic acid, would cardio serve a better purpose in comparison to heavy weight training? Alot of pitchers in baseball jog after games to keep the lactic acid from settling in their arms.
This is VERY training age dependent as well. Someone just starting otu will get sore from little work at all and then wrokign in a state of Minor soreness well its a good thing and they will adapt. a veteran on the other hand to get sore it takes a LOT of work and getter to linit the training when sore IMO.
In both cases as long as the soreness is not HORRID then sure workout and it can be beneficial training dependent and goal dependent.