Soreness

[patro]

How important is it to pay attention to soreness?

Is it unwise to lift with muscles that are already sore from a previous workout? What consequences can this have?

And after weeks or months of lifting will soreness go away and recovery time decrease, thus enabling one to hit those muscles more frequently?

I hate not being able to go to the gym due to soreness, but I think I'm being too cautious.

-Patro

 

[diamonddiceclay]

you can work each bodypart once a week and not get sore

 

[GenetiKing]

You should always pay attention to delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).

Do not train a sore musclegroup. Ever.

Recovery time can be tweaked to a degree. However, soreness is typically the result of your body receiving exercise stimuli that it is not accustomed to. In other words, any change in exercise intensity, training volume, rep cadence, set/rep schemes, or even new exercises/routines altogether can initiate DOMS.

You are not being too cautious in avoiding to train a sore bodypart...you are being smart.

Always listen to your body.

Good luck.