As infants grow rapidly, do they experience continuous muscle soreness much like adults after a workout?
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Not really.
The soreness in muscles when you work out comes from micro tears in the muscle fibers as you’re putting strain into the muscle. This stimulates the muscles to heal and regenerate and over time is part of the process that builds the muscle tissue and strength of the muscles.
But growing muscle tissue as part of normal growth doesn’t work exactly the same way. While your muscles will grow and add in overall mass like in working out, normal growth doesn’t include the micro tears. So it shouldn’t be painful in this way.
Although people do tend to report pain/soreness when in growth spurts. But that’s typically when you’re older as an adolescent. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of in facts feeling pain to do normal growth.
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