Muscle Soreness Mystery - Should You WORK OUT or NOT?

Fast muscle recovery leads to faster muscle gains with ATHLEAN-Rx

is muscle soreness a good thing and perhaps the craziest challenge ever from athlean x g to cover it all in this [Music] video what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier aex. com got three things to cover in this video I mentioned two in the beginning but I want to talk about soreness muscle soreness because I get a lot of questions about whether or not it’s a good thing and whether we should train with it or not so I want to cover that I also want to tell you about perhaps one of the craziest Challenges ever not done by me but someone that submitted it in and I’m going to tell you a little quick story about that and then tie it all together with these three bottles that are sitting in front of me okay but first let’s address muscle soreness now the question is always on people’s mind should I train with muscle soreness is it a good thing you know I I I don’t know whether or not I should work out if I’m feeling sore here’s the key thing guys you got to differentiate what is the soreness okay are we talking about muscle soreness or we talking about joint and tendon soreness so a good way I feel a quick easy way to sort of tell you guys how to do that would be to locate where the where the soreness is if you can say like for biceps that you feel pain after training and generally again if it’s from your workout and doing good muscle damage it’s going to probably come in in that 24 to 48 hour after the workout time period but if you can touch somewhere in the actual muscle and feel the discomfort more than likely it’s going to be because of your workout and that’s a good thing if we’re talking about the extreme ends of the muscle so down here or up here where the muscle either originates or attaches not really a great thing more likely you’re shifting it now towards a tendonous injury something that you should probably stay on top of or maybe the best treatment would be to get out of the gym in rest okay most often with overuse injuries that’s the case same thing like down in your let’s say you’re training your Cals or you were running outside on on the sand on the beach and your Cals were sore the next day great that’s a good thing because they were not used to the stimulus but if you’re starting to feel that lower down into the Achilles tendon again you that slight shift is going to be a good sign to you that maybe you overdid it um and did it damage to something other than your muscle so that would be the case now some people find that if it is in the muscles themselves like let’s say from leg training workout it actually benefits to do something really light so if you have you know hit your legs hard with weights the next day really sore or two days later you’re really sore it can actually benefit your legs to go take a fast walk just to get them working so you get some blood flow there because the blood flow will help to eliminate the lactic acid finally there is one other way you could do it you could if you had somebody around you had them move your limb through space so again if you’re having shoulder discomfort so right here you’re not sure if it’s dealt or whether it is inside the shoulder capsule or joint if you raise your arm up yourself okay and it hurts it could be either joint or muscle pain if someone else then comes and completely passively raises that arm for you and you still have pain or discomfort then you’ve probably probably got joint pain okay cuz we’re taking the muscles out of the equation so if you got somebody around to help you out let them do that and uh you might be able to differentiate whether or not you have something to work through or something that you should not work through all right now that we’ve discussed sess let’s talk about guys that have definitely created sords here with this insane challenge I’m going to read just a little bit of an email that was sent to me and then sort of break down the most important part and how that sort of transitions into the RX supplements uh someone wrote into to me Jeff je I hope you’re able to read this my friend and I are 18 years old we’ve following your program since ax1 truly respect your knowledge creativity craft with Fitness um thanks for the compliments but we’ve been talking we’ve been taking AR supplements like it’s our religion and I can honestly say that they are without a doubt the best supplements on Earth we tried everything on the Shelf nothing compares to the Purity power inside of these three black bottles great and and that’s not a plug they’re not being paid to do that guys but this is the email so the important part with that all in mind we got inspired by the challenges and athlete excise you guys know who follow our programs we have athl challenges built right into uh each and every week of the workouts uh we decided to push ourselves to an insane challenge it definitely falls into the realm of overtraining but keep in mind this is only done once and absolutely not weekly it was inspired by your 300 workout 143 reps of pull-ups assisted pull-ups guys 143 reps of 95lb deadlifts 143 push-ups 143 box jumps on a 24inch platform it goes on and on I’ll put I’ll put the whole letter down in the description here below but the point is he did that three times each time within an hour so you’re looking at a three-hour workout which is about 2 and 1 half hours longer than I recommend and 3,03 total reps which is God knows how many more reps than I recommend however he acknowledged that it was crazy gotten through that but he said I’m sure if you read this far you’re convinced that we’re mental um you said it not me and the truth be told we are but we are smart with our supplementation he took his pre-workout before hand okay scoop one scoop beforehand he took three 3,000 reps later he took two scoops of the post-workout accelerate went home and took two scoops of the recovery shake and they crashed and they were out until later that evening asleep I’m assuming they took two more scoops of the Reconstruction and they fell asleep until the next day the crazy parties he said besides the challenge was they were not sore not sore like at all my only guess is it had to be the supplements it’s true we trained hard we trained long but it would have been one or the other with without your supplements motivation inspiration a little Insanity so here’s the point that they’re brought up guys is there is a connection between muscle soreness and Recovery obviously the faster you recover the quicker you can get rid of muscle soreness supplementation I believe that’s one of the strongest places that supplements play a role now for those guys who know anything about anabolic steroids first of all you should know they’re incredibly dangerous you should stay away from them with your life the fact of the matter is mechanically the way they work is by speeding up recovery almost making Muscle Recovery a nonissue okay these guys that abuse anabolic steroids are basically training and training and training and training but because their recovery is almost instantaneous they can accumulate these high volumes and that’s how they see the results for us guys that avoid that stuff and look for natural ways to get bigger get stronger get faster we have to look at ways we can improve our recovery so muscle soreness is an important issue it’s not something to to be uh ignored with the RX supplement uh series the biggest my biggest priority when I created these was to what can we do to address muscle soreness we know that we have to elicit muscle soreness to have some sort of a stimulus to get bigger and stronger so with a pre-workout you want to be able to have the necessary intensity to go at your workout and give it a good effort because that’s where you give the stimulus to create some of the micro damage in your muscles that will promote recovery that have to be recovered right in or