Originally Posted by mkv213
I have muscle soreness everytime during the following days of training a specific muscle group. I hit 1 group per week. I have muscle pain because I constantly increase the intensity and weight every week. Even if it's only by 5 lbs more than the previous week. As long as intensity and weight continues to increase, the micro fibers are going to tear and rebuild to compensate for the increased load. The body re-adapts. It is good to take a break now and then, also to change up your routine. As I said, the body is adapting and compensating, you need to change it up to shock that adaptation, throw it off. Keep the body in a constant state of guessing while trainging and compensating for increased work load and intensity to grow. As long as your progressing in this manner, you should always feel some type of muscle soreness. So no pain no gain is true when looked at in that fashion. If it's pain from an injury, then you could actually lose due to time out.
Though there are those obsessed out there that don't listen to our bodies and train while injured. My shoulder has been jacked for over a year now. I think it's my rotator cuff. I can't really do any type of over head presses w/o pain. But I know that kind of pain isn't going to contribute to any type of gain. I basically, have just adapted and lift at different angles to take the load off of the injury. I need to take temp. time off to let it heal but that isn't going to happen until it has to happen (when I fck it up seriously). Sad but true. Guess I'm dedicated lol..or stupid. But the ladies like it so...what are you gonna do?