No Pain no Gain - True or False
Wikipedia tells us that suffering, or pain, “is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm”. The threat can be physically or emotionally provoked, and physically or emotionally experienced, or both. Delayed onset muscle soreness, for example, is a physical symptom, while a sense of failure is an emotionally prompted insult. As trainers and coaches we may be fooling our clients when we dispel the old saying No Pain No Gain.