How to relieve soreness from weight lifting

tamiesue2

I had my first weight lifting session friday with my trainer, today my muscles are soooo stiff. I have kept up good with my water and eating proteins. I think it was the dead lifts that did me in lol.. Any suggestions on how to reduce some of the stiffness?

songbyrdsweet

Hot shower and stretching! If it's really unbearable, you can take a painkiller.

MercuryBlue

Weird as it sounds, I find that more exercise helps me when I'm sore. Something like light cardio helps loosen me out quite a bit. Also hot baths and stretching.

anasf139

I randomly put some deep freeze on my legs once, and that seemed to work!

Heather2784

10 to 20 minutes of cardio when you're done. Helps release the build-up of lactic acids, which is what causes the muscle soreness.

it_be_asin

Stretching and yoga, and a epsom salt bath do it for me. As for post weight training cardio, I usually walk home after the gym, it's a 30min walk, so it may help but as I always do it I cannot evaluate its effects against a control!

thefuzz1290

Good nutrition and time, as well as what others were mentioning.

twinmama1987

Stretching/yoga

BigDaddy822

Eventually your body will adapt and it wont be soar so much. But there really is not anything to take it away. But the sourness is a good thing.

CourteneyLove

Weird as it sounds, I find that more exercise helps me when I'm sore. Something like light cardio helps loosen me out quite a bit. Also hot baths and stretching.

THIS!

KristalDawnO

Ice works great! But other than that. you just have to work it out. After a week or so of lifting, you won't be disabled after a workout anymore. It is most likely lactic acid buildup. Eat some bananas

SomeoneSomeplace

Hot Tubs are EXCELLENT!
Stretching in the Hot Tub is even better, stretching in a hot shower works too.
Aleve
Icey Hot/Bengay
Heating Pads
Ice
Also might sound weird but a short jog helps! Really hurts at first but it loosens up your muscles and moves around the lactic acid that's giving you pain. I still get sore sometimes after a particularity difficult workout but the more you work out the less painful it gets.

engineman312

i follow a lot of the advice from this article. http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/01/16/how-to-stretch/ i also do a bit of light jogging that goes to walking for a few minutes.

basically, my warm up and cool down add up to about 50% of the time my "work out" is. ex, my weight lifting routine is about 30-40 minutes long. my warm up is 12 minutes, my cool down is about 8.

never skimp on a warm up either.

Goal_Seeker_1988

try drinkin a whey protein shake after your workout. Whey protein has been found to reduce soreness after workouts.