Have you ever experienced muscle soreness from your last workout?  Having sore muscles is a good reason to skip a
workout, right?  Maybe, maybe not.

Sore muscles and weight lifting go together like celebrities and breakups, especially if you are a beginner or coming back to weight training.

If you’re the typical male, you’ve commonly forgotten to check your ego at the door and lift too much weight rather than building gradually into your workouts.

If you’re too busy to finish reading this, my best and simple advice is to lower the intensity and work through it if you
have sore muscles and scheduled for a workout. Sore muscles are weak and damaged and if you expose them to more high intensity, it can lead to further damage, delayed recovery and potentially injury.

Getting muscle soreness is very common and a trial-and-error experience because you’re not sure what you can handle and what you can not handle.

Let me remind you to distinguish between soreness and pain - muscle soreness is not bad, pain is bad. I commonly recommend working through muscle soreness, and not taking a day off, but you should use lighter weights until the soreness passes.

You will find the best sore muscle treatment is to perform your next workout with lighter weights and higher repetitions to flush the lactic acid, a by-product making the muscles sore.

To minimize muscle soreness is the first place, focus on the stretching program found in the Upside Down Training phase (included in my http://www.musclebuildinglive.com/musclebuilding  program), stretch before you train and even during your rest periods in
between sets.

I don’t personally like to stretch in between sets because it mentally distracts me from staying intense but that’s just me - experiment yourself and decide based on the best results.

Don’t forget to to stretch properly before and after you train and despite what you’ve been told - there is a right
way and wrong way to stretch and I show you exactly how to do it safely in my muscle building program: