IME ‘soreness’ is pretty different to ‘pain’. [EDIT: although I don’t know if this is just different because my brain knows that DOMS is fine but knee pain during squats is not]
There are plenty of different sensations that people sometimes call pain. Being able to distinguish those sensations and treat them differently is useful.
Not counting the sensensation that comes with soreness as pain is an option but it’s not how everyone uses the word pain and especially people without much experience of it will lump it into the general pain cluster when they encouter it.
My initial reaction was that “soreness” doesn’t count as pain within the context of the post because it’s not as immediate, but I couldn’t come up with a principled reason for doing this gerrymandering. I no longer endorse point 1 (If it hurts, you’re probably doing it wrong) in the form stated and will think about how to reflect that in the post.
Small correction: DOMS is a distinct phenomenon from pain during exercise, which usually means that you are doing something wrong and may be injuring yourself.
DOMS occurs 1-2 days after exercise, as mentioned in the NHS quote.
This goes counter to the general NHS advice for excersie Why do I feel pain after exercise?:
IME ‘soreness’ is pretty different to ‘pain’. [EDIT: although I don’t know if this is just different because my brain knows that DOMS is fine but knee pain during squats is not]
There are plenty of different sensations that people sometimes call pain. Being able to distinguish those sensations and treat them differently is useful.
Not counting the sensensation that comes with soreness as pain is an option but it’s not how everyone uses the word pain and especially people without much experience of it will lump it into the general pain cluster when they encouter it.
Thank you for pointing this out.
My initial reaction was that “soreness” doesn’t count as pain within the context of the post because it’s not as immediate, but I couldn’t come up with a principled reason for doing this gerrymandering. I no longer endorse point 1 (If it hurts, you’re probably doing it wrong) in the form stated and will think about how to reflect that in the post.
Small correction: DOMS is a distinct phenomenon from pain during exercise, which usually means that you are doing something wrong and may be injuring yourself.
DOMS occurs 1-2 days after exercise, as mentioned in the NHS quote.