Muscle soreness is felt the day after more often than the day of a workout. If a person has a workout in the morning they may feel tired or fatigued in the region they worked in the morning but it usually isn’t sore. The soreness kicks in the day or 2 afterwards. Why is that? Why isn’t it sore the day of later on?
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Any answer to this question is going to be speculation or just a flat out lie. The short answer to this question is nobody knows.
If DOMS was related to the repair process, like the top comment claims, then you’d get DOMS after any sort of weight training. But that’s not the case. You only get it if you use muscles that haven’t been trained in a long time.
Another post claims it’s due to the damage to your muscles. Well then it would start hurting right away. The micro tears in the muscles occur when you do the movement. So that’s not correct either.
The only correct answer to this question is unfortunately, ‘we don’t know’
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