this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
1098 points (98.4% liked)
Memes
45891 readers
1261 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’m not sure why this needed to be said. The normal soreness from exercise is expected and in a way desirable because you know it’s “working”. Those muscles are taking damage and being rebuilt in a simple way of saying it. This is part of the process that keeps you healthy and fit. That’s entirely different from hurting for unknown reasons when doing nothing.
I think there's a non-zero percentage of people that confuse being sore with having unexplained pain. And there's probably also another group of people that think they can excercise without being sore, given how lots of people exercise tout it as fixing all pain, which might set incorrect expectations.
Anyway, I am just sharing my own experiences.
You absolutely can exercise without being sore. If you head over to /fitness on that other social media site there are plenty of people who can vouch for the fact that doing some decent lifting can end up in a spot where soreness doesn’t happen. I’ve been there, and it kinda sucks because that soreness is sort of a mental reward that “heck yeah, I did work today” and when it’s gone you miss it.
I think people are smart enough to know the difference between not working out and still sore/having pains, temporary exertion and hurting oneself causing soreness/pain,and workout soreness.
I’m not sure that pursuing the semantics of the words and subjective feelings of the differences between soreness and pain is worth pursuing here.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.