Which one of the following statements about pain during free-weight lifting is most accurate? a. you should continue to work through any pain you feel but reduce the amount of weight you’re lifting. b. your threshold for pain will be decreased by the amount of weight you lift in your first two sessions. c. you should consider any soreness you feel the day after your first weight-lifting session as normal. d. you should expect to feel muscle pain over the course of the first four weeks after starting to lift free weights.

it is not choice d.

The correct answer is option C.  

Explanation:

Free weight lifting requires more effort from the stabilizer muscle of a particular individual as free weight lifting includes kettlebells, dumbbells, medicine balls and others that are free for various movements and not specific for the constrain weight lifters.

Weight lifting machines are work and focus on fixed movements and therefore require less effort but in free weight, lifting muscles has to work more than normal. Hence, a person can experience soreness the very next day of the first weight lifting session.

Thus, the correct answer is option - C.