So been being more cautious about my health since I’m in my late twenties and decided to try to exercise some more. Starting out with 25 pushups and 10 burpees (probably not a lot but I felt winded) and after the exercise I felt fine. Then the next day it starts to hurt like something smart. Why though? Shouldn’t the muscles be rested after that point?
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thousands of tiny microtears in your muscles. Takes a little bit for the lactic acid to leave and let you feel it all at once.
If you’re like me, you’ll actually learn to start liking these soreness.
After awhile, they don’t happen anymore and I kind of miss it. It’s like a drug, I keep chasing that high (soreness) but it never really comes back no matter for hard you work (at least not as sore as the beginning)
Basically when you exercise you tear your muscles. Most of the repair process occurs when you’re most at rest, ie sleeping. Working out in the morning could help this, but you’d be more sore by the end of the day.
Try the carnivore diet. Nothing but fatty meat, salt if you want it, and water. That includes no coffee or anything else. I guarantee you wont get sore, and you’ll have more energy and stack on muscle like crazy.
Saw this post by a physical therapist that said there’s an alarming amount of people who don’t understand muscle soreness after a workout and by golly gee here we have one.
You work out then your muscle are going to get sore lol. It’s the process of building more muscle, they break down and rebuild. It’s perfectly normal to be sore days, even, after a workout.
DOMS baby, I love the feeling.
It’s a build up in lactic acid after working out your muscles and it’s takes some time for the muscle to produce it
There is going to be some muscle damage and lot of inflammation which causes pain.
One tip I once herd was to slowly increase amount of exercise. So maybe do 5 push-ups to start and gradually increase over time.
Delayed onset soreness means you pushed your body too far. If you push yourself right to the edge of your limits, you’ll be sore immediately and then recover fairly quickly (usually). If you push past your limits, you’ll hurt the next day, or the day after.
25 pushups and 10 burpees is actually quite a lot for someone who hasn’t been doing any exercise. Especially all in one go.
If you’re just exercising at home, start with smaller, more frequent workouts. Do half a dozen pressups 2 or 3 times a day. That’ll help to condition your body ready for more extensive workouts.
You’ve been visited by the DOMS: delayed onset muscle soreness. Very normal, honestly don’t know why it happens but I get it too from time to time when my recovery isn’t optimal.
Delayed Onset Muscles Soreness aka DOMS. It’s well documented and studied, you may want too look it up.
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