Health and Fitness | Workouts | Muscle Soreness
Why Are You Sore After A Good Workout?
For the people that have never worked out and decided to start, they don’t know what they are in for! But, I will give some indication as to what to be ready to feel!
The main thing one has to realize is that when you work out, you use muscles in a way you probably don’t do every day. When this happens, the muscles say “hey, what in the world just happened? I’m not used to doing that movement. Guess I’ll have to start adapting.”
Yes, you’ll feel tired when you’re done with the workout, but the real “soreness” may not happen for a day or two after you do the workout.
This “soreness” is commonly referred to as “DOMS”, which stands for: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. If you’ve experienced this, you’ll know that it’s a good soreness, as I like to call it. This is what you WANT to feel after a workout.
The best way I know how to describe it is it’s a funny soreness. For example, the next day after a leg workout and you get up from sitting down, your legs muscles may be hurting you, but you’re laughing at this hurt. It’s not a “ouch! Take me to the hospital!” sore, it’s more of a “Oh, my legs don’t want to move” (as you’re giggling) type of sore. Have you ever experienced this?
Once a new person experiences this feeling, they don’t like it (because it’s so different) and therefore, they may feel they did something wrong with the exercise and decided to stop working out.
My advice is to NOT STOP working out! The DOMS are what you WANT to feel! Now, you may feel like you shouldn’t do that same workout the next day, but go ahead, it’s cool. But, there’s no harm in waiting 3 or 4 days to repeat that exercise. Instead, do something else, work out another part of the body or another muscle group.
Your goal, as a new workout person, is to achieve this DOMS feeling with every workout. No I’m not crazy, I’m just telling you like it is. I personally like it when I get DOMS, it tells me I’m doing something right for my body.
Will this soreness ever go away? Truthfully, I don’t know if it will ever go away, but you will get used to it and, actually, look forward to it. Once again, this is a funny soreness, not a hurtful soreness, so it should be good.
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