| You will not become a better athlete by doing the | | | | take stressful workouts only after the soreness |
| same training regimen each day. Athletes train by | | | | disappears, you will become progressively |
| taking hard workouts on one day, feeling sore on | | | | stronger and faster and have greater endurance. |
| the next, and not taking another hard workout | | | | Athletes in most sports train once or twice a day |
| until the muscles stop feeling sore. | | | | in their sports, but they do not exercise intensely |
| It's called the hard-easy principle. If you want to | | | | more often than every 48 hours. |
| become stronger or faster or increase your | | | | There is a difference between the good burning |
| endurance, you have to exercise hard or long | | | | of training and the bad pain of an injury. The good |
| enough to make your muscles burn. Then your | | | | burning usually affects both sides of your body |
| muscles will be sore for one or more days. If you | | | | equally and disappears almost immediately after |
| try to exercise hard when your muscles are | | | | you stop exercising. The bad pain of an injury |
| damaged, you will tear them and the muscles will | | | | usually is worse on one side of your body, |
| weaken. If you wait for the soreness to | | | | becomes more severe if you try to continue |
| disappear, your muscles will be stronger than they | | | | exercising and does not go away after you stop |
| were before your workout. As you continue to | | | | exercising. |