So sore!

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Should I wait off on lifting untill all my sorness goes away? Or should I just work through the pain.

Normally, "working through the pain" means "causing injury".You didn't give any details. How long are you waiting between working out the same muscles?

Don't work the same muscle group more than once a week, and if your muscles still ache after a week go see a doctor.

Only once a week? I assume that's aimed at serious body builders on a serious program.

A particular muscle will lose a lot of mass in a week if it's not worked (told to me by a doctor, regarding athletes).

Just because your muscle has stopped aching doesn't mean that it hasn't stopped rebuilding from your last workout. If you train the same muscle group more than once a week you risk over training.And no, amataur and serious body builders only train muscle groups once a week. As they always say, your muscles grow outside them gym, not in it.

You wouldn't tell a competitive runner, swimmer, or bicycle racer to train only once a week, would you?

"Should I wait off on lifting untill all my sorness goes away?"I would tell a weight lifter to train each muscle group only once a week, yes.

wait 3 days after workin out a certain body part

sweriously wait a week though? That seems like its so long. After like 2-3 days, my muslces arent sore any more. And what do you consider building them or working them? Very stenuous training? or just casual lifting / smaller weights for toning?

Huh? That's not what tripelsix said.strengthening ==> lighter weightsbuilding (mass) ==> heavier weights

Whether aiming for definition or mass, you should only train each major group once a week. What people forget is that many muscles are used almost every workout, like shoulders, lats and triceps. You may only target shoulders directly on shoulder day, but they'll be assisting on back and chest day too. If you start working out twice a week you risk overtraining.

That may be true if you want to gain mass, but it's certainly not true if you want to gain strength. Any athlete who trained the muscles he needed for for his sport only once a week would lose most of his matches or races.Personally I'd rather be strong than look pretty, but each to his own.

You may also want to incorporate more potassium in your diet. It helps alleviate soreness and blood flow.

We're talking about resistance training, not races, sprints or soccer. I've already stated this.Are you honestly recommending to someone that had to ask whether they should train when sore that they should train more than once a week?

They shouldn't train when they're sore (i.e., when they have some sort of acute injury).Is exercising on a stationary bicycle considered resistance training? The pedals provide resistance to the motion of your feet.

He clearly stated in his initial post he was lifting, not riding a bike, or any other excerise. I've stated this twice now, are you purposely trying to annoy me, or are you just dense?He's talking about soreness, one would assume this means the ache you recieve in your muscles over the next few days after a "lifting" workout. Yes, I suppose if you really wanted to nitpick you could say maybe he was asking whether he could lift with a broken arm, or a torn ligament, but from what he said it is highly unlikely.

It depends on what his intention is for lifting. You have an Arnold Schwarzenegger view of the world, but the OP may not. Perhaps he'll come back and clarify.If his intention is to be buff looking, then he should do what the pure bodybuilders do. It all depends.

Whilst I will admit my ignorance on specific sports training, I doubt even pro atheletes do weight training more than 3-4 times a week. I guess squatting could help improve your sprint time, or how hard you kick, but would it improve your ability so much so that it would be worth your time doing them twice in one week? I highly doubt it. In fact I suspect you'd be better off spending that time doing sprints, or practicing your kick.

Boxers spend a lot of time in the gym, and they tend to be well-defined, but not bulky like Arnold. A lot of pro basketball players seriously work out with weights, judging by their definition...I don't think it's all steroids.It would be interesting to know the details of the basketball players' exercise regimes. I'm sure every pro team has its own gym and trainers.The point I'm trying to make is that people working out for pro sports and Olympic events are training for strength and agility, and they know what they are doing. I don't understand why working out to improve sprinting is different than working out in the gym, as far as the muscles are concerned. Sprinters aren't primarily interested in the cut of their thigh muscles, but they usually have massive, powerful ones.As for me, when I go into the gym, my goal is strength (but not at the expense of flexibility), rather than definition, although I don't mind definition.A bit of a tangent, but when you play a sport, when you work out (whether or not in the gym), you need to do things that are not antagonistic to the muscles you're trying to develop....at least that's what they though when it mattered to me. For example, bicycling was thought not to mix well with swimming.

Yes, but do these basketball players and boxers lift weights for certain muscle groups more than once a week? They might spend a lot of time in the gym, but they're often punching bags or skipping. As for the basket ballers, yes, they obviously lift weights, but not 6 times a week.Also, don't think being big means being unflexible. I bet most pro body builders out there are a hell of a lot more flexible than you.