My workouts over the last week have been killer! After doing back yesterday, this morning I laid in bed scared to move in fear of the pain...but to my surprise it wasn't as bad as I imagined. It's bad!!! But just not bad enough for me to succumb to a rest day. Actually, keeping the body moving is the best cure for soreness and pain.
Up until about 2 months ago, it would take 2 days for me to feel the effects of a workout. That is no longer the case. I start feeling the soreness the very next day. The soreness let's you know that the WORK!!! you put in, in the gym was properly applied. I should be careful about using soreness and pain interchangeably as they ARE different. Pain is gonna make you want to go to the ER, soreness is gonna make you wanna skip your next workout (but you shouldn't do that)! Lol!
Not so long ago, when I completed a back day I would feel a ton of soreness in my entire back. However, with this last injury I knew what I was feeling was not my average back pain and the ER is where I landed. So, as you continue in your journey you will learn your body and what's Norman vs what's not.
Now, there are times in which I will fight through some pain without going to the ER. Leg days, for whatever reason, has been triggering some serious PAIN lately. I mean it makes me want to go to the ER but I know that would be a waste. After my leg day, I literally dread walking, going down stairs, going to the bathroom, and going to sleep (because upon waking the PAIN is worse)! My quads have recently rejected me and I'm not liking it. As I am typing this, I'm still sore from my leg day that happened on Wednesday! Leg day will be coming back around and I'm not ready!
It may sound like I'm complaining but I'm not! I LOVE the SORENESS and the PAIN! I LOVE the challenge that the gym brings and I LOVE feeling the effectiveness of my workouts that manifest as soreness and occasionally pain. I LOVE being in the gym! I LOVE the experiencing and witnessing of gains! I LOVE everything about the pursuit of fitness. 
I LOVE it so much that I'm on my way to the gym right now to WORK!!! through some of this pain to be able to add some more. As they say say...
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