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Depends on the pain.
If it’s joints or ligaments, stop immediately. Coddle the shit out of them.
Muscles, treat them like dirt, get shit done.
Quipy, and dead on about the joints and ligments, but bad advice on the muscles.
Go ahead and tear a muscle and then enjoy either surgery or spending months/years waiting for it to heal, same as a joint or ligament tear.
We are resilient in general, but any sudden “treat them like dirt” action can fuck up either. If you want to “get shit done” you need to build to it, grease the groove until your body adapts to the motion.
If you can’t do anything about it, and pushing through isn’t going to make matters worse.
Or if you know it won’t last forever and you can manage it.
Sometimes the only way out is through - like with grief, or childbirth, you cannot get past it without just feeling it.
To gain.
Or maintain.
Or abstain
If I know it’s a stomach cramp, but I’m not done my work out or on my bike.
if its worth it.
Pain is temporary, therefore pain is fine if it leads to long term gain. It is not fine when it leads to long term loss.
Chronic pain isn’t temporary though.
Wow, what a great point.
Too bad we are talking about pain and not an extreme form of pain.
Obviously there are exceptions.
“Extreme form”.
I don’t think you realise how age-privileged your comment is. Chronic pain isn’t extreme or even something only a minority of people encounter, oh no. Most people will know what chronic pain is after some four decades on this Earth, be it mild or severe.
So even if it is just mild pain, you can’t “push through” it.
I had surgery where, afterwards, it hurt if I did certain activities including walking.
The doctors said it was better to walk sooner than later as walking and other activities would help me heal and get back to normal.
Yeah, I was in pain, but it meant that I would recover faster.
Maybe there will be bacon
Which kinds of pain? As a long distance runner, I have increased my threashold for physical pain and all other sorts of discomfor, so pushing through that kind of pain and other misery definitely paid off.
If you’re going through hell, don’t stop.
My tattoo looks great and I’m glad I didn’t research how painful it would be!
Two reasons.
- Because you don’t get what you want out of life by running from pain, you just have to embrace the suck.
- Because I’ve had chronic back pain for the past ~20 years and there’s nothing my doctors can do about it, my only alternative to pushing through the pain is to make myself unable to feel pain anymore, and despite the pain I still quite enjoy life.
My coworker took leave to get back surgery because her back was messed up and she was always in pain.
Now she can hardly walk after massive complications and multiple surgeries.
Anyone I’ve ever met who had a back surgery say that they wish they never did it. It could be confirmation bias on my end.
BUT she told me that she wishes so badly that she would have just pushed through the pain. She was fully functional and working a pretty active job. Now she sits at a desk somewhere part-time.
The only person I’ve seen actually benefit from back surgery is my sister getting rods put along her spine for her scoliosis. It helped her tremendously. She has some recurring nerve pain from it, but her organs aren’t being fucked up anymore and her back doesn’t hurt constantly. She also got so much taller.
Everyone experiencing pain, has to find their own reason to push through it, or they will succumb to it. Whether it’s emotional or physical, most of the time the best way out is through. If you’re in dense brush, with thorns all around, you can stop, and hope that by remaining perfectly still you’ll avoid being poked, or you can clench your teeth, move as much as you can out of the way and push past the rest. Sometimes it’s remaining still that becomes more unbearable.
Whenever I fall out of running, and try to pick it back up, my inner mantra remains the same. It doesn’t matter how many times you stop, as long as you start back up again.
Glory
