exercising the muscles flushes the old lactic acid from them and improves the muscle.

My sore was not an unhealthy sore, but one that resulted because of my muscles inexperience with the strength and motion required of it to perform the pushups…

I am much better for having worked out.

Our body is a fine instrument and it can self-repair and adopt, but you can’t be rough, pushy and too demanding on it, otherwise it can break down. Once some fine bio-chemical mechanisms or even tissues are broken, the body will attempt to repair itself but it takes greater effort to repair it. Why break it in the first place? What’s the rush? Go slow and steady and you will get there faster and without any unnecessary issues.

How do I know that? I have an MD and I devoted long, long, long hours of research on body physiology because my husband has Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Body damage and repair is one of my deep interests and I read on the topic every week if not every other day.

Please do push-ups and every other physical activities, but listen to the pain signals. It is not healthy at all to put your body into pain state over and over. It is a trauma and you should avoid any trauma all the time.

All traumas, even micro-traumas get “recorded” and at first they might seems like get repaired, but we will never know for sure.

Some small bio-chemical break downs might stay hidden (without any symptoms for years) in your system and one day when the threshold is reached you will get a full blown health disaster.

So pain is not always gain, in fact I read it as a warning signal. Consider yourself warned.

so far anyway