Wednesday, 20 August 2014

DEALING WITH MUSCLE SORENESS AFTER EXERCISE



Exercises are accompanied with muscle pain, especially if you're working out for the first time. Starting a workout plan comes with loads of challenges like, creating time to exercise, keeping up with it, trying to achieve your set goals and possibly exceed it. It's a lot of hardwork! 

If you're not motivated enough, chances are, you'll quit after the first day. But guess what? If you resume after a while, you're still gonna experience the same measure of pain in those muscles, so endure the pain and surprise yourself!


Our muscles go through a bit of physical stress when we exercise, so it's totally OK to experience muscle soreness after engaging in a physical activity, especially one new to your body. Mild muscle soreness is quite dominant in the early stages of exercising, but it's just a natural sign that your muscles are adapting to the new activity. If you don't quit your workout routine, the next time you exercise, you'll feel less muscle pain and recover from it faster than the first time.

There's something called DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) by exercise physiologists. This is an increasing discomfort that occurs in your muscle after a day or two days of engaging in a strenuous physical activity such as exercises. This is totally natural and normal, even fitness instructors experience this once in a while.

There's almost no way to escape muscle soreness, but as your body and muscles adapt to your workout routine, you'll feel less of the pain. To minimise muscle soreness during and after exercising, always ensure you do the exercises correctly. You can also try this pineapple and mango smoothie here to help you recover faster.

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7 comments:

  1. Muscle soreness is an awful experience but the only remedy to it is never give up. If you can endure the pain the next day, you are good to go.
    Keep up the good work Ifu

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  3. I started my excercise program last week and still feel sore even now.but am not giving up,I hope to trim and tone my tummy,and thighs bf this mnth ending.pls Ifu your BB pin,tnx. EVE E UME

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