Injured Yourself Exercising? What You Need To Do Now

Have you recently injured yourself after an exercise mishap? It happens! Everyone has the chance to pull a muscle in their legs, back, or shoulders. And when you do, it hurts like hell! 

But what do you need to do next? You’ve been injured during a routine, and despite having the best of intentions in working out, you're not really feeling up to keep going. You’re in pain, you’re not feeling all that great, and let’s face it, you’re pretty tired as well. 

We’ve all been there, and it’s hard to keep yourself both motivated and focused on recovering well. And because of that, we’ve put together a little guide to the workout recovery process. If you’ve injured yourself doing a set of reps, here’s how you should proceed.

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Rest!

That’s the most important thing to do right now! If you’re in pain, you can’t keep going. Exercise isn’t supposed to make you feel like you’ve got a cramp you’ll never shift, or make shooting pains ping up your spine. A bit of tension is fine, but anything else is too much. You need to stop, sit down, and rest.

If need be, make an appointment to see your regular doctor and get yourself checked out. This is just to be sure you haven’t done the kind of damage that needs medical intervention. But otherwise, kick back and relax - and keep feet, ankles, and calves elevated!

Get a Massage

Massages are great for sports injuries, but you’ll want to make sure you visit a properly verified RMT massage clinic. It’s nice that your partner is willing to massage the muscle for you, but that probably won’t cut it in the long run!

Get a deeper tissue massage done, that can actually help to work out the knots and potential acid build up, and give your body a better healing experience overall. If a trained massage therapist is working on the area, you know for sure that the muscle or tendon strain is actually being targeted properly.

Start Again Slowly

If you want to get back into the swing of exercising, make sure you go slowly. Don’t immediately launch straight back into the thing that injured you in the first place. Whether that was a super intense HIIT workout or a 5k run around your neighborhood, don’t let yourself just get right back in and expect to be fine.

You need to dial it back and work up again, because your body clearly had something to say about trying out the more intense version the first time round! Let yourself strengthen up, get a bit more practice in, and just see how you feel doing the repetitive movements that left you hurt and in pain. Because if it’s still too much, you likely need to try out something else.

When you injure yourself exercising, it’s difficult to know what to do next. Stretch? Try a cool down? Mainly, you should get some rest and let yourself recover!  

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