Bad to lift weights day before tennis?

[EddieBrock]

I'm thinking of doing P90x chest and back which is a lot of push ups and pull ups/chin ups as well as some back exercises with weights. There's also a separate shoulders and arms routine I'd do a different day that exercises your shoulders, biceps and triceps with dumbells. After I do these routines I definitely feel sore in the area I exercised for a few days.

Is it bad for you to play tennis while you feel sore? I'm fine with not playing as well, but I don't want to get injured.

 

[Hmgraphite1]

I have same question, I've been doing it day before, but do a good slow dynamic stretch warm up the next morning and before I play.
When I workout before I play the same day, in the past, I played poorly , overhitting.
I try to do it after tennis usually same day.

 

[Bluefan75]

If you stretch and warm up well, you shouldn't feel too much. Are you currently on a lifting program?

Here's the thing: you're going to start sometime, and if you haven't been doing anything, you will be sore to start. Until you get into it for a couple weeks, a workout will leave you sore. If your long term plan is going to include lifting, you will have a few early days with some soreness on the court. Better to get it out of the way.

A different discussion will be whether to do P90x...

 

[PMChambers]

Everyone's different on recovery. I need 2 days after heavy weights to recover some need 5 days and others less than 24 hrs

 

[Ramon]

I think that when you first get started on a weight training program your body is adjusting to something new, so playing tennis afterwards could introduce another variable. However, if you make weight training a regular part of your routine, your body will adjust to a new norm, and playing tennis afterwards won't be such a big deal.

 

[FiReFTW]

Depends how much.

If your talking about an insane superset session of intense 1.5 hour heavy weight training... then YES, probably not the best idea.

 

[Turbo-87]

I don't have a choice. I lift weights 4 nights a week intensely and even play tennis after a leg workout. It doesn't seem to affect me but everyone is different. The key thing is to listen to your body.

 

[richardc-s]

The first few times you do it it will suck, as you'll be aching like mad and probably play terribly because of it. But after a few weight sessions your body will adapt quickly and you won't have the terrible aching for days after.

I weight train around 4 days a week and very rarely feel sore the next day.

 

[ollinger]

If you accept the notion that weight and resistance exercises cause muscle development in a process that involves transient damage to the muscle fibers, then playing sore the next day likely means you won't play your best tennis, though I doubt there's significant increase in risk of injury

 

[moonballs]

In the winter when I am not playing tennis regularly I am lifting four days a week. In the summer when I will play on the weekends I am thinking of lifting on Mondays and Thursdays. I worry a little bit about the Monday lifting session being affected by the weekend tennis.

 

[Raul_SJ]

If you accept the notion that weight and resistance exercises cause muscle development in a process that involves transient damage to the muscle fibers

That theory is not widely accepted?