November 21st,2009 Muscle soreness from exercise is a condition called DOMS or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. It usually happens when you place stress on muscles when causing them to do something their not used to.
DOMS if not understood can be a deterrent to exercise for newcomers who mistakenly believe they have injured themselves badly,but DOMS is perfectly normal especially during initial workouts and can even be experienced by exercise enthusiasts or body builders alike.
Rest,ice,heat,massage,anti-inflammatory medication and mild exercise can all help reduce the pain and speed up recovery. DMOS usually affects only the exercised muscles leaving you free to exercise the muscles that aren’t affected.
In the field of strength training and weight lifting many believe that giving a 48-72 hour rest periods for overworked muscles is essential for the muscles strengthening and growth,and if you workout sore muscles results will be slower. This is based on the catabolic nature of exercise that breaks down muscle tissue and anobolic nature of rest that builds muscle tissue.
Other fitness enthusiasts however state the opposite. They believe that when we workout sore muscles and further breakdown muscle fibre,the body will send more reinforcements of white cells and nutrition filled blood to the damaged muscles and invariably lead to an even quicker recovery and faster results.
There are programs sold in the market which go by the second theory,however with this method there is a possibility of over-straining the muscles which could lead to serious injuries. Until we have a better idea,I would suggest resting sore muscles unless it’s just mild exercise to help in recovery.
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