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Pain when you
are performing your bodybuilding workout is a warning sign that a body
part has been injured. By letting the pain be your guide, you can
practice preventive medicine. First avoid the bodybuilding workout that
caused the pain and allow the area involved to recover. After an
adequate period of rest you can gradually resume your bodybuilding
training.
Once you have
regained full range of motion of the injured extremity and there is no
associated pain, you have healed enough to increase the resistance to
that movement on a gradual, progressive basis.
If you begin
to feel pain, you have gone too far. Healing takes place by degrees over
a period of time, and pain is an indicator of how far along you are. To
progress too much too soon and not stay within the boundaries described
- freedom from pain - risks getting more severe injury and chronic
injury.
Bodybuilders
often become frustrated with prolonged or even short recuperation
periods because of the resultant loss of conditioning, the setbacks, the
"shrinking" (muscular atrophy and loss of muscle volume), and the mental
and emotional anguish of not being able to train. However, the ability
to deal competently with injury and to have the discipline to allow
healing to take place is essential to a successful bodybuilder. To do
otherwise could further delay or completely prevent you from achieving
your muscle developments.
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