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After several minutes of heart pumping cardio and weight training you may expect
your body to be a little sore. But what about when the soreness doesn’t set in
until a few days after your workout? Emil Guido is a licensed massage therapist
who deals with complaints about muscle soreness every day. He says when the
soreness comes days after your workout it’s a different type of condition.
“We’re talking about D.O.M.S., delayed onset muscle soreness. This is a soreness
that happens usually 24 to 48 hours after you’re working out.” While the
soreness may feel like it is bad for your body, it’s actually part of the
workout process. “This is different from the muscle soreness that you get while
you’re working out and it is actually part of the adaptive process of what the
body goes through to help reorganize itself and help get itself prepared for the
increased stresses of working out,” Emil says. He adds that sometimes D.O.M.S.
can sometimes even stop people from sticking to their workout plan. “When you’re
hurting you tend not to do it so they start their workout program they feel
great a couple of days later they’re hurting and they’re like I’m not doing that
anymore.” So to prevent that cycle it’s important to look at your options for
alleviating muscle stress. “Massage therapy helps, breathing techniques help,
stretching both before and after your workouts are very important to warm up the
muscles and to calm them down afterwards,” says Emil. D.O.M.S. should not be a
debilitating condition. Emil says if you continue to stretch and monitor the
intensity of your workouts eventually your body will adapt and get stronger.
Breathing deeply during workouts helps bring more oxygen into your body which
could lesson your chance of developing D.O.M.S. |
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