FAQ Series #2 - What should I do if i experience Pain at Woven?
Experiencing pain during a workout is an extremely normal, albeit scary experience. Although lifting weights is very safe, injuries are a normal and inevitable part of the human experience, and should not be treated as catastrophes.
If you’re training at Woven, and you experience pain the first thing you should do is stop. Please don’t push through pain under any circumstance; it is much better to live to fight another day than experience a longer setback because you did not listen to your body.
The second thing you should do if you have a pain experience at Woven is to tell your coach. We can then try to understand the severity of this experience and get you whatever care is needed as soon as possible.
After that, we need to breathe. It is easy for these situations to feel grave, but feeling pain is not the same as getting hurt, and more often than not these situations resolve themselves on their own. As we get older, we experience little pains here and there all the time that end up going away 5 minutes later. Our bodies are incredibly strong and resilient, and your first expectation should be a full recovery, oftentimes more quickly than expected.
Once we get beyond the moment of immediate pain or discomfort, it’s important for your coach to have as much information as possible to make the proper decisions about your training moving forward. Is this the first time you have experienced pain in that part of your body, or is this more of a chronic issue? What movements specifically make your pain feel worse? What make it feel better? Does rest make your pain better? Or worse?
We will collaborate with any additional members of our Woven wellness team to make sure you have the support necessary to bring you through this experience. This could be working with our in-house PT, or simply modifying your program to avoid exacerbating your symptoms. Over time we will work with you on getting back to, and then beyond, what movements caused the pain experience in the first place.
