When any workout or specific exercise causes you pain, pay attention. If you know how to react it can help you avoid a serious injury. There can be several types of pain associated with strength training namely:
Muscle Soreness
While using muscles that you have not used for a while or trying a new exercise or training technique, you can tend to feel a dull ache of soreness in the muscles which is quite normal. This pain is as a result of microscopic tears in the fibers of the connective tissues in your body–the ligaments that connect bones to other bones, and the tendons that connect muscles to bones.
This micro trauma is in fact the natural response of your muscles when they undergo training. Hence it is imperative that you must get enough rest between specific muscle workouts. This is absolutely essential to maintain higher levels of fitness and health. Each time you work out with weights, there may result these tiny tears in your muscles; they need ample resting time to rebuild and become even stronger, bigger, and more firm.
Pain During or Just After a Workout
Repeated contractions during workouts can cause lactic and other acids, as well as proteins and hormones, to build up in muscle tissue. This can cause pain even without injury. However if you experience a sharp, continuous pain, or pain accompanied by a burning sensation, you must get it checked by a professional.
Cramps
Cramps result when muscles often in the calves or feet, knot up in intense contractions. Cramps occur mostly in endurance sports like cycling and running, where the athlete loses a lot of fluids through sweating. Hence it is important to stay well-hydrated during exercise to maintain general health and fitness. The best way to stop cramps is to gently stretch the cramped muscle.
Injury
When working out with weights you need to be in full control of both the weights and your own body as it lifts and uses the weights. This will only lead to good health and fitness levels. Careless weightlifting can result in injury. Not warming up, attempting to lift too heavy a weight, using fast movements or momentum, allowing the weights drop, improper posture or forgetting to stretch or cool-down after your workout can indeed result in injury.
Tendonitis, fascia injuries, ligament tears, sprains or muscle tears can occur during workouts and these on occurrence must be checked by a health care professional to rule out complications and ensure better health and fitness.