Why You SHOULD Train When Sore

i love the feeling of the Soreness.. its weird

thanks for the advice, i just walked back into the gym after a brutal leg day, looking like I was about to limbo some invisible pole while completely inebriated, and had to ask a stranger to tie my shoes for me before leaving.

When I used to stop training due to soreness, I would actually be sore longer than usual. Now that I push myself to go train even if I'm sore or don't feel like it, I find that I recover much faster. So if you're wondering whether you should skip just because you're sore, the answer is No. Get in there and smash that workout.

Just took your advice, off to get my hamstring reattached to the bone, cheers.

Ahh, the good times when Elliot spoke and gave knowledge to us.

What he's trying to say is that it's worth it because you are getting your muscles used to it. If you were to get your muscles sore, then wait a week until they are not sore, then go ahead and do another workout, your muscles would get sore again and start the whole process over. Where as if you were to get your muscles used to it, they wouldn't get sore in future workouts. And when you watch the video, around the end or so, he says STRETCH your muscles. When you stretch your muscles, it's good and you get your muscles used to it even if it hurts a bit. He doesn't mean a full blown workout, that's too much on one's body when they are really sore. No one has to reply to me, I'm just telling you guys so you all know. But you guys can like my comment lol >.<

Comment section full of people who can't understand what they listened to. He said TRAIN when you're sore. He didn't say train HEAVY when you're sore. He talked about how you need to get your body still doing the movement, so it becomes used to the range of motion and you don't become hostile to it subconsciously due to your DOMS. You don't need huge load to train ranges of motion, hell you can do it with your own bodyweight. If I had to guess I'd say Elliott trusted ppl to figure that part out for themselves. Judging by the commenters on this video though I'd say he probably should have explained it .. using small words ...

DOMS is what Vin Diesel feels after workin' out.

It's also worth mentioning that training sore muscles forces your body to pump a shit load of oxygen into the area which will greatly reduce the amount of time that the soreness hinders you. Personally I have found that Doing low resistance high repetition exercise kills off the soreness very quickly and also serves as a great warm up before I start the high resistance stuff on other muscle groups that are fresh and ready.

I agree with this statement. Try to train even if you are soar. There is a difference between completely taking a day off and resting your muscles. If you train heavy and your body is soar, then stretch or work on your range of motion through body weight reps. If you take days off and ignore the range of motion, you actually lose the range of motion you are doing, and your nervous system/metabolism does not really increase over the long term. The trick is working out till exhaustion, letting your muscles rest, but still getting blood flow, water, and nutrients in there. NEVER ignore a range of motion for more than two days, and don't work out to the point where you can't walk for 5 days or break/tear something. Just be consistent, challenge yourself at least 6 days a week, sleep for at least 7-8 hours, and eat modestly.

Totally agree! Especially if you're a beginner lifter... But, what Elliott forgot to say is that you should take let's say 10% of the weight that you usually do, because training while shore is easier to injure yourself... Nobody hits a PR with shoreness....

I like your knowledge, you're respectful, and you keep it simple and to the point. Thank you!

A micdonalds add played before your video. Dats fucked up, here i am trying to better my self with weight training knoledge and mickey ds trys to bring me down

When you are sore from a workout (DOMS) and really want to workout. Go super super light with the weights and go slow. It's like stretching. The soreness is from microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. You can get injury if you don't know what you are doing and or lifting even slightly heavy weights. you are basically destroying the fibers before it can fully heal. I like to let it fully heal and hit hard again. eat your macros and stretch is what I like to do unless you are a gym rat.

My routine, which i've formulated around one muscle a day, was centered around also providing each motion necessary rest and not adding strain to my body which could result in injury or non-optimal gains. Mon - Chest Tues - Back Wednesday - Legs/Core Thurs - Shoulders/Traps Friday - Arms Sat - Cardio (I am a swimmer)/bodyweight exercises Sun - Rest

Thank you so much for the advice! I've just started lifting, to be exact I've been to 3 of my buddies workouts. I've gotten 1 rest day and man am I sore. I was just about to take maybe a 2 day rest day at most. I'm gonna follow your advice and hopefully I'll recover a lot faster from my soreness! Thanks again!

training when you're sore starts to force your body to recover faster. your body is smart and realizes that it is under stress consistently so it will recover itself faster to prepare it for the next time you put it under that stress. and eventually you may just feel sore for about a day and that's it.

You need to get your blood pumping through them sore muscles to heal faster.

Yo EllioT! Wanna get your suggestion or a correction about my training Routine if that`s possible :) Training 5 days a week Mon - Fri, about 2hrs a day. Mon - Chest + Shoulders (5 exercise Each, 3-4 sets 10-12 reps) Tue - Biceps, Triceps, Back (5 exercise Each, 3-4 sets 10-12 reps) Wed - Legs (5 exercise , 3-4 sets 10-12 reps) Thur - Chest + Shoulders (5 exercise Each, 3-4 sets 10-12 reps) Fri - Biceps, Triceps, Back (5 exercise Each, 3-4 sets 10-12 reps)

This is great advice. After watching this video I looked up static stretching and Anabolic Exercise has a 10 minute stretch. I swear I was very sore from squats, now my legs feel brand new