Is Shaking While Strength Training Normal?
Have you ever been doing push-ups or ab exercises and noticed that your body started to shake? This happens to me when I'm pushing myself or at the end of a set of exercises. Why does it happen?
Basically your muscles shake when they are working hard at something they're not used to doing. Maybe you're lifting a heavier weight, or doing more reps of a certain move. When your muscles begin to quiver, it's because they're grabbing and releasing one another as they lengthen and shorten. Once your muscles become accustomed to doing that exercise or lifting that amount of weight, the trembling will stop.
So is it a bad thing? To find out read more.
The shaking indicates that you're demanding more from your body than it's normally capable of doing. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but you can expect to be sore the next day since you're making tiny microscopic tears in your muscles. As the muscles repair themselves, you'll become stronger. So the more you work on those exercises that make you quiver, the stronger you'll get and the less you'll shake.
Fit's Tip: Just a reminder — you never want to push yourself too hard, so if you find that you're shaking from your first overhead press trying to lift 10 pounds then you should drop down to a lighter weight.
