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Exercise And Weight Gain
Exercise And Weight Gain
Soreness versus injury
Workout soreness is the way most bodybuilder gauge the effectiveness of their workout. While exercise and weight gain are inter-related, so are soreness and workout. Whenever muscles are loaded by increasing intensity, resistance or duration the resultant is workout soreness.
Muscle soreness during exercise and weight gain does concern injury and damage at the microscopic level. This does not require therapeutic intervention and a bodybuilder generally welcomes this soreness. Bodybuilders who are in tune with their bodies and have been practicing the art of exercise and weight gain can differentiate between muscle soreness that is symptomatic of a good workout, and soreness that suggests overwork or injury. Whenever post workout soreness is severe the pain warns you that the intensity is high and the workout is being undertaken with too little gap - without allowing muscles to recover and repair. Severe soreness is a direct indication that you need to take it a little easier in the gym and to pace yourself during exercise and weight gain.
Muscle Soreness
When you are performing an intense set of exercise to weight gain, the exercised muscle begins to burn after the first few repetitions. The burning sensation is caused by a build-up of metabolic by-products including lactic acid. If they reach high enough levels, muscle functioning gets impeded. The major source of lactic acid is the energy source called ATP. The body produces ATP through either with the use of oxygen (aerobic pathway) or without the use of oxygen (anaerobic pathway).
While in exercise to weight gain, aerobic pathway is the source of energy for low-intensity, long-duration exercise such as marathon running; anaerobic pathway provides energy for short-duration, high-intensity exercise such as bodybuilding. One of its byproducts of aerobic as well as anaerobic is lactic acid, which may be utilized as an energy source in the future. The body is so constructed that high concentration level of lactic acid interferes with many metabolic functions of the body. High muscle acidity can slow down enzymes that are needed for ATP production, can prevent utilization of glycogen and can produce workout soreness. Soreness symptoms generally appear about 12 hours after the workout and become more intense the next day. These symptoms however disappear within a few days. Generally you'll get over simple soreness in a few days.
To remove the aftereffects of workout soreness, light, high-rep exercise that gets the blood flowing to the area such as stretching, massage or use of a sauna are a great help. However, if soreness persists and the muscle pains a lot, then you have injured the affected area.
Many reasons can lead to injury during bodybuilding exercise to weight gain. Some of the most common reasons that lead to injury are lack of concentration when working out, overtraining, poor exercise technique, too much weight, inadequate warming up, lack of stretching, exercise type, muscle imbalance, reaction to bio-chemicals and even poor nutrition.
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