Hi all,
I'm a new member. In my younger days I was a pretty fit individual(weightlifting, swimming, cardio,etc., etc.,) but as a working adult my fitness has slowly deteriorated. I used to work as a carpenter so I spent a lot of timeon my feet lifting and hoisting things in the hot summer sun. For the last three years or so I've owned my own construction company which means I almost never put on the tool bags any more and spend most of my time in my office or in my truck.
I am resuming excercise and realize I am much less fit than I used to be so I am starting off easy. I've never been much of a long distance runner(more of a sprinter) so I am walking and will eventually start walk/running and then move to full on running after my body is conditioned to withstand the impact running has.
I also lifted weights at home Thursday for the first time in a while and I used my little 45 lb. dumbells and did 1 warm up set and only 1 regular set of 10-12 reps of squats, lunges, shoulder press, chest press, dumbell flys, curls, tricep extensions, one armed rows and sit ups. I didn't use all 45 lbs on each dumbell for the excercises. I only used what felt comfortable to me.
Yesterday and today my quads and glutes are especially sore, other muscles are sore but not too bad. Not injured sore but just good and sore. In order to continue in the direction I would like to go I should really repeat this workout again today but I want to be sure I won't be taking 2 steps backward and make it worse so that I can't continue lifting weights in the next couple of weeks. Obviously the goal of weight lifting is to tear down the muscle tissue in order for it to replace itself with better stronger tissue. I haven't injured myself but was just wondering if it's o.k. to strain these muscles again lifting weights or if I should rest a day or two more? How soon could I expect to be able to lift maybe with a day of rest between workouts?
I'm a new member. In my younger days I was a pretty fit individual(weightlifting, swimming, cardio,etc., etc.,) but as a working adult my fitness has slowly deteriorated. I used to work as a carpenter so I spent a lot of timeon my feet lifting and hoisting things in the hot summer sun. For the last three years or so I've owned my own construction company which means I almost never put on the tool bags any more and spend most of my time in my office or in my truck.
I am resuming excercise and realize I am much less fit than I used to be so I am starting off easy. I've never been much of a long distance runner(more of a sprinter) so I am walking and will eventually start walk/running and then move to full on running after my body is conditioned to withstand the impact running has.
I also lifted weights at home Thursday for the first time in a while and I used my little 45 lb. dumbells and did 1 warm up set and only 1 regular set of 10-12 reps of squats, lunges, shoulder press, chest press, dumbell flys, curls, tricep extensions, one armed rows and sit ups. I didn't use all 45 lbs on each dumbell for the excercises. I only used what felt comfortable to me.
Yesterday and today my quads and glutes are especially sore, other muscles are sore but not too bad. Not injured sore but just good and sore. In order to continue in the direction I would like to go I should really repeat this workout again today but I want to be sure I won't be taking 2 steps backward and make it worse so that I can't continue lifting weights in the next couple of weeks. Obviously the goal of weight lifting is to tear down the muscle tissue in order for it to replace itself with better stronger tissue. I haven't injured myself but was just wondering if it's o.k. to strain these muscles again lifting weights or if I should rest a day or two more? How soon could I expect to be able to lift maybe with a day of rest between workouts?
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