The Pain Behind Exercise

Hi it’s Leeza – The Health & Confidence Coach. Today I am going to explain why exercise is a pain. I’m not talking sore muscles from a great workout. I’m talking that lower back, the knee pain, the shooting pain down your legs and sore hips.

If you have read this far then I’m going to assume that you are suffering from one if not all of the aches and pains I’ve just shouted out. You might be a runner or into high impact, high energy workouts or you might be hitting the weights doing exercises like Dead-Lift and Squats.

It’s frustrating because you know, you’re working out, you’re being healthy but after a great session you need 2 to 3 days of rest for that pain to go away. Or even worse you just think – I don’t care! I’m going to workout, and the end result is much worse. Something you feel all day, carrying a dull ache around with you. This will lead to giving yourself an injury if you continue training this way. 

You don’t know whats causing it, it doesn’t make sense and it’s starting to have an effect on your performance when you do workout. You start missing out the moves that you know aggravate the pain restricting movements and exercises to work around the pain.

In the end if this carries on you will be wondering if it’s even worth the effort of working out. You will hang up your gym shoes and be done with it.

BUT…

There is a way…

I am going to share with you today the worst kept secret that none of us care about.. STRETCHING!

We don’t care about it because it’s boring and we think it’s not that much of big deal. You might spend some time in the steam room or think that the walk back to work will be enough.

Do you know that this chronic pain you are experiencing is because you are simply not stretching at all and if you are then they are not effective?

So here are 3 things you should start incorporating into your workout regime right now.

1. Warm up – focus on opening the hips plus glute and core activation. This is your prep work before you work out. It’s not a myth that warm muscles = better performance.
2. Focusing on engaging the muscles warms them up nicely ready for a great workout.
3. Stretch – Stretching after a workout is honestly the most important piece. It doesn’t have to go on for ages but it does have to be a proper, effective stretch. Focus on main stretches like hips, glutes and hamstrings. If you spent 60s on each stretch thats only 6 minutes sounds like a bargain trade off to be able to exercise pain and injury free.

Follow these steps for an amazing health transformation!

The Health and Confidence Coach