Should i work out if I am still a lil sore?

[jononioo]

Quick question? Should I work out if im am still a little bit sore? I have adopted a training style of working out the same body parts monday, wednesday, and friday. I am wondering if this is too frequent. I am trying to gain mass so im eating a lot and sleeping alot also. please help? ive read about 4 articles debating weather to do HIT or HFT...im confused. Somone please help!

[dindysport]

that seems a bit through the week...suppose it depends on how hard your hitting them and if your doing the same workouts...letting your body recoup will decrease injury and will increase progress...

[jononioo]

my goal with each workout is to work until absolute failure.

[Anotherfling]

Generally speaking, working out till failure every workout is a terrible idea. It causes more stress to your CNS than you can effectively recover from, so you end up severely inhibiting progress. Failure can be a part of a successful routine, but generally as a methodology that is not used every workout.

As far as your original question, working out when a muscle is a little sore isn't usually a problem, and I is something I do all the time. Working out when a muscle is worn out and you can't lift anywhere near your max is a different story. You gotta have recovery time, but there are some exercises that I don't do offten that leave me sore for extra days, SLDL's would be one example.

[Veeno]

Originally Posted by jononioo

my goal with each workout is to work until absolute failure.

You say that your goal is to work out til failure, but you also say you work the same body parts monday, weds, and fri. I'm wondering if you are doing bench press exercises on all 3 days for your chest for example. If so, then you are definitely over training if you are training to failure on the same muscle group every day of your work out. I could be missinterpreting your statement and if so correct me and I'll give you an updated opinion.


Hope that helps,
Veeno

[jononioo]

or very close to it

[jononioo]

Originally Posted by Veeno

You say that your goal is to work out til failure, but you also say you work the same body parts monday, weds, and fri. I'm wondering if you are doing bench press exercises on all 3 days for your chest for example. If so, then you are definitely over training if you are training to failure on the same muscle group every day of your work out. I could be missinterpreting your statement and if so correct me and I'll give you an updated opinion.


Hope that helps,
Veeno

yeah, i work out the same body part every monday, wed and friday until failure.

I honestly thought that I would get clarity from reading about training. But i am more confused now more than ever.

If I work out chest on monday, should i wait until like thursday to do the same chest workout?

[italianbull]

no you will get injured and pull muscles and strained too

[jononioo]

can somone point me toward a push pull routine that i can do twice a month? for example: Monday-push, Tuesday-pull, Thursday-push, Friday-Pull. With a workout like that, that will be 2 days of rest. Isn't 2 days enough. I dunno, some people rest for a week, some people rest a day.

[jononioo]

anyone?

[Veeno]

Originally Posted by jononioo

can somone point me toward a push pull routine that i can do twice a month? for example: Monday-push, Tuesday-pull, Thursday-push, Friday-Pull. With a workout like that, that will be 2 days of rest. Isn't 2 days enough. I dunno, some people rest for a week, some people rest a day.

I can't direct you to a good push/pull routine, however, I can tell you that more rest is better in most cases. However, bodybuilding is different for everyone. Find what you feel works for you. If your current routine is not adding mass as quickly as you would like, try adding more rest into routine. I personally train each body part once a week. Especially if you are training to failure or near failure. A week is rest enough for me. But what works for you might be different. Like I said, everyone is different.

[uday1583]

i feel its not the appropriate workout as its too frequent and the idea of doing it till failure is not good too... the body requires sufficient rest to recoup teh energy and gain strength... so ensure sufficient rest...

and also ensure to have sufficient cardio as it helps a having the right balance intact.

[Kelei]

I am sore every workout, I don't think it really matters too much, but you do need to be able to tell the difference between normal soreness and actual pain coming from ligaments or small muscle tears, if you ignore the warning signs you may find yourself with an injury.

[csjunkie]

being sore is normal. Just continue to do what your doing with the 3 days body part. Its a good workout.

[boathead]

this is a topic which interests me. i vote no...that if you are still sore, you are still recovering....and more than that...you have to recover, sure, but that only gets you back to where you started. you then have to permit "supercompensation" to occur, where the muscles go beyond where they were, add muscle, so that they can handle the stress you placed on the muscles.

the time period involved depends on various factors, i.e. intensity of the workout, genetics, diet, rest, etc. i know this goes contrary to what most do, but assuming you are getting adequate rest and nutrition, an intense workout requires up to 7 days for recovery, and then supercompensation. if you hit the muscle group prior to that, you will have short circuited the recovery/supercompensation of the muscle, and you will not have attained max benefit from your workout.

hope this helps. i truly believe most of the forum members here, myself included, should give themselves an extra day or two per muscle group. how many times have you missed a workout, and then two days later you go in and the lifts seem super easy? that happens alot to me. and that is because supercompensation has happened.

[crazychris7417]

Usually what im trying to do is ill work lower one day then the next upper, back to lower and then upper. So it would be four days in a row, BUT im giving each area a day to recover. Id suggest to work your way up to this, maybe workout upper mon, lower wed. and maybe back fri. Do that some and then build your way up to the four day thing as I did.

[gervvin]

Bingo. Good luck!

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