What IS muscle soreness?
Muscle soreness is basically damage to the muscle fibers as a result of training. Without going into detail on how it happens and how the recovery process occurs (which is beyond the scope of this article), muscle soreness is your body telling you that it’s in need of repair. Now how can it possibly be good for you to train a muscle again while it’s still sore? Here’s where we get into a contentious area. After reading this, you may choose to agree with me or disagree with me (if you’ve read my articles in past issues of Real SOLUTIONS, you know I’m anything BUT conventional). All I ask is that you consider my arguments… Now, if you’ve never trained a muscle hard two days in a row or trained it while it was still quite sore, you’re going to be in for a shock at how unique a stimulus it can actually be. Sure there are arguments against doing that, e.g. the muscle hasn’t fully recovered and you’ll be tearing it down even more. But consider this…from an adaptation standpoint, of the f
