Why does muscle soreness aka DOMS take a day or two to feel the effects? Why not sooner?

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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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There’s not really all that available information about it, we don’t really know for sure.

But it seems like the soreness is a result of the recovery process, so likely case is that your body doesn’t start reparing before you go to bed. I’ve never had my doms delayed more than a nights rest, except for cases where I slept poorly so I would guess that those nights with poor sleep didn’t start the recovery process enough to cause doms.

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