A lot of people have said on here that you should lift a certain muscle group, and then rest the next day to heal. However, since I just started lifting again, I am still sore after the second day.. Should I still work out, or wait until I have healed completely?

I am trying to do a full body eventually, but I don't want my whole body to be sore all the time (I walk around and lift moderately heavy things when I go to my job every day).

Thanks for any help.

I remember being sore for up to five days after workouts when starting my program years ago. Because you're a newer lifter with lots to learn, I would not suggest ever working a sore/unrecovered body part. Sore muscles lead to bad lifting form, bad form leads to injury.

If you absolutely feel the need to exercise while still sore, choose cardio instead. Lift weights when the soreness is gone.

-R

There are different types of soreness. The good type is the natural results of putting your body under new tensions and felt in muscles. A bad soreness is when it is focused on the joints and tendons. I work through the good soreness, but I rest the bad type. Learn the good from the bad.

I like warm baths after a good workout and a aspirin doesn't hurt. Do the whole body, now and take the full 48 hour rest between workouts. Your body will approve.:tucool:

A lot of people have said on here that you should lift a certain muscle group, and then rest the next day to heal. However, since I just started lifting again, I am still sore after the second day.. Should I still work out, or wait until I have healed completely?

I am trying to do a full body eventually, but I don't want my whole body to be sore all the time (I walk around and lift moderately heavy things when I go to my job every day).

Thanks for any help.

In my experience, total body training 3x a week gives me less soreness than any other method of training if workouts are structured properly and nutrition is good.

Your work capacity adapts and since you are distributing the work for a muscle group across the week instead of putting it all into one or two sessions a week, the muscles just aren't as sore.

But generally you work through the soreness unless it is to the point where you are limited in ROM and thus at higher risk to injure yourself due to bad form, or if it's soreness that is more from a strain or a pull of a muscle and not simple DOMS.

Im experiencing the same thing now; having little worthwhile core and lower back workouts ive been sore in my core for 3 days now. I'm not letting it get in the way of cardio, but am using the time to get upper body workouts in.

If its just soreness, try not to let it get in the way of your training. If you think its joint pain or something, then definitely get off the gas.