What Causes Muscle Soreness After Weight Training?
Muscle soreness hurts! But if you’ve spent any time in the gym you don’t need me to tell you that. However, having sore muscles isnt always a bad thing. Some trainers believe that unless you experience some degree of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) you havent challenged your muscles beyond what they are already accustomed to. Please remember that we are referring to aching pain you experience in your muscles that comes about a day or so after your workout and may last up to a week. This type of soreness is usually not associated with much swelling or inflammation and it is usually relieved when the sore muscle is exercised. This is in contrast to the sharp pain associated with soft tissue injury which is usually accompanied by swelling and gets worse when the affected muscle is exercised. We will discuss dealing with soft tissue injury (muscle strains and sprains) in another article, but for now keep in mind were talking about productive muscle soreness to say it in a nice way. In
