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You absolutely can exercise without being sore. If you head over to /fitness on that other social media site there are plenty of people who can vouch for the fact that doing some decent lifting can end up in a spot where soreness doesn’t happen. I’ve been there, and it kinda sucks because that soreness is sort of a mental reward that “heck yeah, I did work today” and when it’s gone you miss it.
I think people are smart enough to know the difference between not working out and still sore/having pains, temporary exertion and hurting oneself causing soreness/pain,and workout soreness.
I’m not sure that pursuing the semantics of the words and subjective feelings of the differences between soreness and pain is worth pursuing here.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.