How do you know when pain during exercise is ok or when you should stop? You can use the stop light guide to help you.
Red light: you experience pain during a movement/exercise and the pain stays worse 15-20 minutes after exercise. STOP!
Yellow light: you experience pain during a movement/exercise and the pain is no worse 15-20 minutes after exercise: Proceed with caution! If the yellow light turns red, STOP.
Green light: you are not experiencing any pain with movement/exercise. Keep going!
Sometimes pain is initially experienced with a particular movement/exercise and gets better as reps increase. This is also a green light!
