No Pain No Gain?
(Including exercising with an auto-immune condition)
Listener Request!
Let's talk about pain or discomfort you might experience when working out.
Should you work through it? Is it ever good? What about when you're sick - workout or not? In this episode we cover;
Coming to the gym with an injury
Auto-immune conditions
When you’re not well
Injuries
How injuries occur and types of injuries
How you can rehabilitate a muscle and make it Stronger by using it
Movement is GOOD for our bodies
Movement increases blood flow to an injury helping it to heal
Physio Exercises - love them or hate them - do them as often as you can
If an exercise a physio prescribes seems strange remember it’s about how your body functions, so often a physio exercise may not appear to affect the injured area
Why do we get sore after a workout - what's normal and what's not?
Soreness is caused by overload creating micro-tears
Micro-tears are how Strength Training works
The main cause of micro-tears are eccentric contractions, which is a lowering of the weight where the muscle if lengthening under load
Stretching helps by lengthening and smooth out the muscle fibres and reduce the soreness
Skeletal Pain - if you feel pain in your bones and joints, stop what you are doing, seek advice from a professional.
Key take-aways;
IT’S OK TO SLOW DOWN!
Pain is not the same as discomfort.
Pain does not validate your workout as a good or beneficial workout (and neither does sweating btw!)
Exercising with an auto-immune condition (E.g. Fibromyalgia, polymyalgia, rhumatoid arthritis)
When you are living with a life limiting condition, and you want to be living your best life - go and do your exercise.
The most immediate benefit of exercise is your mental health, so exercise is really beneficial for anyone with an auto-immune condition.
Moving your body is how it was designed to work best.
If you have an auto-immune condition learn how exercise can make your body feel better, not put it under more stress.
What about exercising when you feel ill?
Don’t workout when you are not very well!
There are no benefits of working out if you might be coming down with something
Once those critical few days are passed, get back to it, move your body, raise your core temp, get the blood flow going
