A Passion for Running

Comment by Thomas

Wednesday July 01, 2009 @

Think of pain as weakness leaving the body.

Comment by Mark

Wednesday July 01, 2009 @

Hi Thomas,

I’m quite familiar with that phrase and I love it for training purposes. However, the pain I am talking about – chronic pain – is something entirely different.

Comment by jeff

Wednesday July 01, 2009 @

i love it when people differentiate between pain and soreness. you nailed it. i love to feel sore. i hate pain.

Comment by Chris Barber

Wednesday July 01, 2009 @

Good relation between soreness and pain. I think athletes who train all the time often confuse pain for soreness and push themselves too much. Likewise, I think people new to exercising confuse soreness with pain and don’t push themselves hard enough. It’s easy to get sore or cause pain, differentiating between the two is the difficult task.

Comment by home exchange

Wednesday July 08, 2009 @

Glad to hear it! And you have a great attitude too, which must help AND it inspires others! Great job!

Comment by Stuart

Thursday July 09, 2009 @

Soreness is a very good thing!

I am in the process of becoming a personal trainer and when I feel sore, I know my muscles have gotten a workout. What I will tell my clients is ” if you’re not sore, you’re not working hard enough”.

I’m also training for a virtual 5K that a friend (and Olympian) is putting on called Best of the Boardrooms 5K and V5K. The Virtual begins August 1 and runs(no pun intended) through October 14th. She also has a not-for-profit organization called Go Healthy Pals which was created to help fight childhood obesity which we all know is a huge problem.

Good luck and keep being sore:)

Comment by fitness strength training

Friday July 10, 2009 @

I hear ya on the pain. I just completely dislocated my shoulder a few months ago and as a weight lifter, a gymnastics coach and personal trainer you can understand the pain i had to go through. but it slowly got better and yours will too. Its crazy the difference bw soreness and pain. I love soreness post workout I hate pain!

Comment by Ben

Thursday July 16, 2009 @

Welcome back, Mark! I had no idea things had gotten so crappy since we last spoke. Clearly my leaving Alberta has been detrimental to your health.

Seriously, though, glad to hear you are on the rebound. Keep it up!

Comment by Marina Kamen aka MARINA

Friday July 17, 2009 @

Keep it up Mark. Sore is good.

never Stop Movin’
M

Comment by Shaun

Friday July 24, 2009 @

The difference between pain and sore!

Better start correcting individuals on which is which

Shaun

Comment by Nick

Saturday June 12, 2010 @

That’s a fantastic understanding of the relationship between pain and sore. I’m often trying to help clients and acquaintances understand that.

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Friday October 01, 2010 @

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