4. Muscle Tear
One of the challenges for someone new to the gym is to identify the difference between positive muscle pain and negative muscle pain. In other words, while DOMS is likely part and parcel of a workout, a muscle tear is very different and should certainly be avoided.
Small muscle tears called ‘microtears’ will always occur during training, but it is when these become too numerous that you end up with macroscopic damage – large physical gaps in the muscle where it has been torn apart, and that leaves you in a lot of pain until healed.
There are numerous things you can do to try and prevent muscle tears. One of them is to make sure that you warm up properly prior to training, which will help to limber you up and make the muscles more elastic.