Pain Doesn’t Always Equal Gain

By now, I hope a lot of the people reading the Reshape the Nation blog have started exercising at least more regularly than they had been. Sure, you might not be doing “two-a-days,” but you should at least be more active and gradually moving toward and regular exercise routine. If you’re not… well… stop reading today’s blog post right now and go for a 30 minute walk.

I’m serious… do it. I know you’ll miss me, but this post will still be here when you get back. I’ll wait…

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There… don’t you feel better? Now, back to today’s fitness advice. You’ve probably heard this phrase before: “No Pain, No Gain.” Essentially, it means whatever exercise you’re doing, if you’re not finding it at least a little challenging (the “pain” part), you won’t benefit from it (the “gain” part). Yes, your exercise routine should feel a little challenging (as I mentioned in a previous post), but, Chris Powell also tries to emphasize in his Reshape program that you need to be careful not to hurt yourself. For people who already have well-established fitness routines they’ve been following for years, one of the most common reasons they get out of their exercise habit is because of injury. So now that you’ve started building a healthy exercise habit, we don’t want you to have a set back due to injury. Remember, work hard, but not so hard you hurt yourself.

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