Muscle soreness - motivation and addiction...but does it las

Emi_the_dork

I have been doing yoga ALOT the past 2 weeks and boy is it paying off! First week - four days straight of working out and yoga made my back shoulders, my hips, my lower abs, my legs and my butt sore...and i LOVE IT! and i dont know why! Took a break for a day or two and am back on it but not feeling as sore anymore.....

My question is....When you work out ALOT during the week are you continually sore? Or does it wear off at certain point even if you work out everday for a long period of time? Can you still feel fit if you dont feel sore after a week of working out?

DrBorkBork

Beat your body up frequently enough, and it will learn to take the beating. So, yes, less sore as time goes on. Make sure you give yourself days off though so your body can repair & get stronger. Also keep activon, blue goo, icy hot, or aspercreme on hand. It helps with the ouchies.

rebecca1721

My soreness tends to go away the more I continually work out unless I push myself harder to go past what I've gotten accustomed to. If you add more weights/reps/length of yoga workout you will likely feel sore again. My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that your body gets used to your work outs. That's why for best results you have to alternate what type of work outs you are doing to keep your muscles/body doing different things. I've read (on webmd.com) that that's why some people don't lose much weight for instance if all they ever do is the same work out (ie: only run on the treadmill or elyptical, etc.) they tend to plateau in weight loss.

oats4breakfast

I think you should continue to feel soreness - only if you're pushing yourself week in and week out. Perhaps not as great as what you first did, but you should still feel it. With something like yoga, it should hold true too, because let's say a pose requires you to have your palms flat on the ground. When you first start, you probably can't do this, but will still feel a stretch and work those muscles (which may be sore next day). Later, you may be able to get your palms on the ground .... but to get the better stretch, you may have to do something else, like lift you heels or something. Always pushing yourself to go on and on and so, exercising new dimensions of your body. Which should damage the tissue (soreness) and then repair during rest.

I'd be worried when the hurt goes away. Then you'll probably not be pushing yourself as great.

It doesn't have to be pain either, e.g. like when we first start doing squats, we can't even sit down the next day. But weeks and months later, we may just feel that our muscle is there the next day, and perhaps it twinges a little on the first two steps when going down a flight of steps. If that goes away, then chances are, we could could work that squat either deeper or with some more weight.

jrich1

I am still stiff and sore in my quads from my Spin class on sunday... its normal for me.. I am usually better by wed to do it again

BarbieCat1

Soreness will get diminish as muscles get used more regularly. The soreness is caused by lactic acid buildup in the muscle used hard. Soreness is not a bad thing though, as it shows you're working your body beyond it's comfort zone and that's what you want, to see progress.

You can do a couple things to make it better... a nice hot shower or hot tub soak after hard exercise is wonderful, as is stretching after exertion. Also, you might take an aspirin at bedtime to reduce inflammation overnight ... Tylenol is only a pain killer and won't work.

The next day, repeat, but more gently and slowly, exercising the sore muscles. You don't have to do a lot of repeats, just work a little. You'll be surprised at the relief you feel.

lilmissy2

I don't think that not being sore after a workout means you aren't pushing yourself. If you aren't sore during the workout then that's a different story. Your body definitely adapts to different exercises and even though it might still be very physically demanding for your body to complete the exercise it won't have the same after effect.

On a side note, when I did exercise physiology at uni (only a single course as part of my dietetics degree) we learned that it was advised not to take anti-inflammatories (but pain killers are fine) for sore muscles because it interferes with the muscle's ability to adapt... so you would have ongoing soreness for longer ie if you completed the same activity each day your body might take 4 days to get used to it and not be sore but with the anti-inflammatories it might take 7days (I made those numbers up to explain because ongoing soreness for longer could be interpreted differently ).

HOSED49

Different types of muscles(fast twitch/slow twitch) have different recovery rates. For me I usually get sore the next day, then I feel it during the workout at the beginning but as my body warms up I am not so sore.Some muscle groups I might not feel until day 2.

david1956

I am convinced that I can see a correlation between eating and healing of body-soreness.

Ocassionally if I have neglected to get protein into my system soon after a workout (I think within 30 mins is recommended), I am sure I tend to be sorer and for longer. And often dinner (especially veges) I definitely feel better after half an hour or so. I'm not imagining it, it is very distinct.

But in terms of general lingering soreness, I think one shoudl feel a bit sore for a while if you're going at it hard.

Anecdotally, it is Weds morning here.. I did chest Monday noon and it is still a wee bit tender. Yesterday was back and the likes of my lats and traps are very difinitely sore. It ould be worse if I was in week one of a program change too.