How to heal your aching muscles

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  • DataBased
    DataBased Posts: 513 Member
    My husband was alarmed at how sore I got after my first really strenuous workout, and I got the following advice:

    If you have sharp pain - not just muscle soreness from working out - consult a physician before continuing. But if you have muscle soreness, the best remedy is a hair of the dog that bit you, so to speak.

    Believe me, I know how you feel - but I was determined to keep my "every other day" schedule I'd set myself for my workout. I picked up some Traumeel topical gel and tablets, which seemed to help a great deal. Also, i took long hot showers and then, with the Traumeel applied and rushing through my bloodstream, I did as much stretching and light stationary biking as I could. I found myself able to work out on the next day, and from there on I felt MUCH better.

    You can do it! :flowerforyou:
  • Brandongood
    Brandongood Posts: 311 Member
    Glutamine helps.

    And how can you say swimming isn't good for losing weight?
  • FIT_Beanie
    FIT_Beanie Posts: 15

    You can do it! :flowerforyou:

    Ahh thank you. I really want to keep to my scheduale too. Wednesday and Friday evening and sunday.
  • Ripken818836701
    Ripken818836701 Posts: 607 Member
    Glutamine helps.

    And how can you say swimming isn't good for losing weight?
    Swimming is great exercise, infact I was swimming in the gulf of mexico everyday when I am in FL. for my workout. But every day after I was finshed I would get these extreme cravings for food, ( something I never experienced during my enitre weight loss) I wanted to eat everything in the house. This left me puzzled so I did some research and found numerous studies that stated that people who use swimming as their primary exercise while eating at a deficit lose less weight on average than people who burn the same amount of calories doing other types of exercise. The reason for this is that most exercises causes your body temp to increase but swimming (even in a heated pool or in my case in the gulf of mexico during hurrcane season) causes your body temp to drop, When your eating at a deficit then have a drop in body temp it tricks your body into thinking its starving and causes you to have cravings to eat and eat alot. Which the average person will give into these cravings and end up consuming more calories per day on average than if they did other types of excercise. These studies caused a light bulb to go off in my head because during the entire last year of eating at a deficit and excerising 7 days per week, the only time I had trouble sticking to my diet was when I was in FL. and swimming everyday. I never had these cravings when swimming wasnt my main form of excercise during the past year. Now some people can fight these cravings and not give in, but like most people I couldnt.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Glutamine helps.

    And how can you say swimming isn't good for losing weight?
    Swimming is great exercise, infact I was swimming in the gulf of mexico everyday when I am in FL. for my workout. But every day after I was finshed I would get these extreme cravings for food, ( something I never experienced during my enitre weight loss) I wanted to eat everything in the house. This left me puzzled so I did some research and found numerous studies that stated that people who use swimming as their primary exercise while eating at a deficit lose less weight on average than people who burn the same amount of calories doing other types of exercise. The reason for this is that most exercises causes your body temp to increase but swimming (even in a heated pool or in my case in the gulf of mexico during hurrcane season) causes your body temp to drop, When your eating at a deficit then have a drop in body temp it tricks your body into thinking its starving and causes you to have cravings to eat and eat alot. Which the average person will give into these cravings and end up consuming more calories per day on average than if they did other types of excercise. These studies caused a light bulb to go off in my head because during the entire last year of eating at a deficit and excerising 7 days per week, the only time I had trouble sticking to my diet was when I was in FL. and swimming everyday. I never had these cravings when swimming wasnt my main form of excercise during the past year. Now some people can fight these cravings and not give in, but like most people I couldnt.
    Yes, eating raises body temperature. Thermic effect of food. That's one thing I've noticed during intermittent fasting. Once I fast for several hours, and the food I eat is all digested, I suddenly feel colder. Calories are a measure of heat, after all.
  • FIT_Beanie
    FIT_Beanie Posts: 15
    Well here's my update.

    Went to the gym, did 2 circuits of some different exercises, but using similar muscles, did some high intensity cardio only for 10 mins and actually the movement helped my aches. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. :happy:

    I think when i sit still i cease up and when i moving it's better.

    Thanks for all the help.
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