With any workout you need to make sure you give yourself ample time to recover. Your muscles require a couple days every so often to rebuild. That aching soreness you feel after a couple days of hard workouts is from repeatedly tearing down your muscles by pushing them. Martial Arts classes are no exception. I go to class 4 times throughout the week and then rest on the weekends. Now I'm not saying to be completely inactive for the rest period, but if you are weight lifting or practicing martial arts or anything that severely taxes your body take a few days and do something a little lower impact, like walking, or taking a leisurely swim. These are things that still boost your metabolism while allowing your muscles to heal.
It's important to remember in the martial arts that you are not just healing your muscles, but your ligaments and bones too. After a couple sparring classes you may have some surface fractures to your shins and insteps, or knuckles, too shallow to feel like a break, but causing you a little pain anyway. If not taken care of these can progress to larger fractures or full breaks, but if allowed to heal they'll callus the bone and make your fist or foot or whatever appendage stronger and a more deadly weapon for your overall goal of being a marital artist.
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