Thursday, February 6, 2014

Soreness- DOMS?

Wow- am I sore. I woke up uncomfortable at 3 AM with extreme soreness in my hip flexors and glutes. Guess those GHD machine movements on Tuesday coupled with a DL workout yesterday did a real number on my body. At least today, I'm taking it easy all day till my endurance class tonight. I think this is a classic DOMS and it appears continued abuse and torture are probably the best medicine for it.

 DOMS-Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness-is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles several hours to days after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. Counterintuitively, continued exercise may temporarily suppress the soreness. Exercise increases pain thresholds and pain tolerance. This effect, called exercise-induced analgesia, is known to occur in endurance training (running, cycling, swimming), but little is known about whether it also occurs in resistance training. There are claims in the literature that exercising sore muscles appears to be the best way to reduce or eliminate the soreness, but this has not yet been systematically investigated.-Wikipedia

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