Which exercise causes delayed onset muscle soreness?
There are three main types: • Unaccustomed exercise • Eccentric exercise • Exhaustive exercise Any type of exercise which you are not used to will place tremendous strain on your muscles and tendons and the tissue which connects it all. This will result in muscle soreness, until the body is used to the particular type of strain. Eccentric exercise is that which involves contraction of a muscle while it is simultaneously lengthening. This produces muscle fibre damage which results in muscular soreness. An example of this is downhill running. As you run downhill, the quadriceps (the muscles on the front of the thigh) contract, to prevent you from falling forward. At the same time they lengthen. Downhill running causes eccentric contractions of the calves, quadriceps and buttocks, which is the cause of extreme muscle soreness after training or racing on a hilly course. Endurance exercise, particularly to exhaustion, is the third type of exercise which produces DOMS. Long-distance running,
