Originally Posted by Garry Walker
Well, here you need to understand the pain and I suppose if you are not experienced you want to avoid pain. Lets say you are doing an exercise for triceps. In the middle of it, you start to feel a really weird feeling in your triceps, like they want to explode and there is pain. In that case, keep going, you are working the muscle well. Dont give up. If you have a bit of soreness the next day, that is good too. Means you have worked your muscles. But if you are doing an exercise for biceps and feel that your shoulder is hurting, then stop. You are obviously doing something wrong or you have an injury somewhere. Obviously, I cannot feel your pain so i cannot tell you if what you are experiencing was just normal after a good workout or a little injury, but if the muscle group that you worked out is the one that is causing pain, then there is a good chance you just have soreness and it will go away soon and you should be happy.
I remember when I first did some exercises for shoulders and my body was not used to that at all, the next 3 days I was in such pain that I thought I had really messed up my body bigtime. I couldnt move my head almost at all. But then it went away and the next time it was lesser and as the body got used to it, it never was like that again. Just a bit of soreness the next day.
But of course, when one gets more seriously into training, little injures and little pain will always be a part of it. Just comes with the territory.