When you exercise your muscles ache afterwards, so how come your heart doesn’t ache after doing cardio?

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When you exercise your muscles ache afterwards, so how come your heart doesn’t ache after doing cardio?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The ache you get in your muscles from exercise, is mainly caused by 2 things:
1. Doing a movement you are not used to
2. Excentrically overloading a movement, meaning, when you “drop” the weights controlled, but kind of cheat it up, for example, trowing a weight up in the air during a bicep curl, but then slowly lowering it.

Your heart does neither of those things. It always performs the same movement and overloading it excentrically doesn’t happen. So it wont usually get sore. It also has a great supply of oxygen and nutrients.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve absolutely had days where my heart felt tired after an extreme effort. But never sore. Interesting question!

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because cardio is aerobic respiration, which does not produce lactic acid.

If you use your muscles for a cardio workout, they won’t ache the way they ache if you do a resistance workout.

Anonymous 0 Comments

… mine does. Is that bad?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Wait.. it’s not supposed to hurt?

Anonymous 0 Comments

There are 3 types of muscles, the ones that make up your limbs, organs and heart. They all behave differently

Anonymous 0 Comments

There are no pain receptors in the heart. Chest pain indicating heart trouble is ancillary pain in the region.

Anonymous 0 Comments

In some people their heart does ache after putting stress on it- angina. But that is not a good thing!

Anonymous 0 Comments

How do I get heart muscle in my legs & arms?

Anonymous 0 Comments

when your heart isn’t getting an adequate supply it does ache, its known as angina and if progression takes place, heart attack.