– why do our muscles hurt more the day after a workout than in the hours after the actual workout?

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What is it about going to sleep that makes us wake up sore? Isn’t sleep supposed to help repair the muscle fibers that were strained during the workout?

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Delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS for short. It’s the muscle fibres repairing that causes most of the pain which starts to occur a day or so after the damage (exercise) has been done

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