Why do muscles ache the day after exercising?
Have you ever wondered why your muscles hurt so much the day after working out? You’re not alone! Many people experience this phenomenon and may be left wondering why it happens. Let’s break it down together.
## Exercise and Muscle Soreness
### Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
– **DOMS**: This type of muscle soreness is known as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, and it often occurs 24-72 hours after intense or new physical activity.
### Microscopic Damage
– **Microscopic Tears**: When you work out, you’re actually causing small tears in your muscle fibers.
– **Inflammation Response**: The body responds to these tears by triggering an inflammatory response to repair and strengthen the muscles.
### Lack of Oxygen
– **Oxygen Debt**: During exercise, the body may experience an oxygen debt, which can contribute to muscle fatigue and soreness.
### Building Strength
– **Process of Strength Building**: As the muscles repair and rebuild themselves, they become stronger and more adapted to the exercise you’ve done.
## Conclusion
So, next time you feel sore after a workout, remember that it’s all part of the process of strengthening your muscles. Keep pushing yourself, but listen to your body and give it the rest it needs to recover properly. And always remember to stay hydrated and stretch before and after exercising to help prevent excessive soreness. #MuscleSoreness #WorkoutRecovery #ExerciseScience #DOMS
When you play really hard or exercise a lot, your muscles get little tears. Your body fixes them while you sleep, but while it’s fixing, it makes your muscles sore. It’s like when you scrape your knee, it hurts until it heals.
Because you are putting tiny little tears in the muscle tissue. When it heals it scabs over a little tiny bit bigger. That’s how you build muscle tearing and scabbing over and it can take a couple days if you’re new to it or worked out very hard.
It’ll become less and less and stop lasting as long with time (as long as you are using correct form).
It means you did good. Keep it up.
Edit: just a tip. Now that you started these next 6 months are the most important of your work out life. This is the time to get the most gains. So stick to it.
The term you wanna look up for more info on this is Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). No by the next day your muscles aren’t healed yet., they have pain and inflammation from the damage done by the exercise. If you’re starting to exercise more than before, make sure to warm up some, and don’t ramp up too much too soon if you want to avoid serious DOMS.
I am not a health professional. Here is some more info from better sources than me:
[https://www.physio-pedia.com/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness_(DOMS)](https://www.physio-pedia.com/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness_(DOMS))
[https://www.healthline.com/health/doms](https://www.healthline.com/health/doms)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness)
It’s a known thing, called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. It’s sore the next day because you need to rest before you can really begin to recover — it takes 2-3 days for muscles to recover fully, so by the next day you’ve still got plenty of recovery to do, and are feeling the most of it.
On a fundamental level we don’t know. The things other people mentioned about muscle tears are reasonable theories, but this hasn’t been proven. We know its not related to lactic acid. It might be related to tendon strain
If you’re starting up exercising after being sedentary for a while, your body isn’t as efficient at resting and recovering. I know the first workout I do after a few weeks off from the gym tends to make me sore but the soreness ameliorates after more regular exercise.
The soreness will greatly reduce with repetition to the point that it’s marginal or unnoticeable. Or, if you’re a freak like me, the soreness might start to feel really good. When I take a break from the gym, during the first week or two returning, the next day soreness is painful and annoying. But a couple weeks in it becomes really pleasurable in a way I can’t describe. Like warm pleasant muscle aches.
Like others have said it’s DOMS. It usually happens if you haven’t worked out in a while. Just keep at it for 2 to 3 weeks and you won’t feel it much anymore. Also need to eat more protein to recover. Whey Protein powder is good way to do it.
I can’t explain why, but I can explain that it’s something that should really only happen pretty early on in training. If you consistently feel REALLY sore from a workout you aren’t doing something right. You’re either using too much intensity of simply not working the muscle often enough.
thousands of tiny microtears in your muscles. Takes a little bit for the lactic acid to leave and let you feel it all at once.
Basically when you exercise you tear your muscles. Most of the repair process occurs when you’re most at rest, ie sleeping. Working out in the morning could help this, but you’d be more sore by the end of the day.
If you’re like me, you’ll actually learn to start liking these soreness.
After awhile, they don’t happen anymore and I kind of miss it. It’s like a drug, I keep chasing that high (soreness) but it never really comes back no matter for hard you work (at least not as sore as the beginning)
Try the carnivore diet. Nothing but fatty meat, salt if you want it, and water. That includes no coffee or anything else. I guarantee you wont get sore, and you’ll have more energy and stack on muscle like crazy.
Saw this post by a physical therapist that said there’s an alarming amount of people who don’t understand muscle soreness after a workout and by golly gee here we have one.
You work out then your muscle are going to get sore lol. It’s the process of building more muscle, they break down and rebuild. It’s perfectly normal to be sore days, even, after a workout.
DOMS baby, I love the feeling.
It’s a build up in lactic acid after working out your muscles and it’s takes some time for the muscle to produce it
There is going to be some muscle damage and lot of inflammation which causes pain.
One tip I once herd was to slowly increase amount of exercise. So maybe do 5 push-ups to start and gradually increase over time.
Delayed onset soreness means you pushed your body too far. If you push yourself right to the edge of your limits, you’ll be sore immediately and then recover fairly quickly (usually). If you push past your limits, you’ll hurt the next day, or the day after.
25 pushups and 10 burpees is actually quite a lot for someone who hasn’t been doing any exercise. Especially all in one go.
If you’re just exercising at home, start with smaller, more frequent workouts. Do half a dozen pressups 2 or 3 times a day. That’ll help to condition your body ready for more extensive workouts.
You’ve been visited by the DOMS: delayed onset muscle soreness. Very normal, honestly don’t know why it happens but I get it too from time to time when my recovery isn’t optimal.
DOMS is the answer to your question. Delayed onset muscle soreness. Others might have mentioned the mechanisms or reasons.
Delayed Onset Muscles Soreness aka DOMS. It’s well documented and studied, you may want too look it up.
Could be totally wrong but, I think it’s due to the fact that… When we work out, our muscle’s contractile units (called sarcomeres) become damaged. Damage in the body leads to inflammation. It’s likely the inflammation, or our bodies response to repairing damage, that causes this pain. The body releases a cascade of inflammatory cytokines (messengers) at the site of damage and this eventually causes a release of prostaglandins which I think are the cause of pain from inflammation. This particular phenomenon is called DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness).Â
You build muscle tissue by creating microscopic tears in your muscle tissue and the fibers repair themselves and grow stronger. The soreness you’re feeling is the inflammation that occurs as the tissues are repairing themselves.
I used to do karate after dinner. I didn’t feel sore and stiff the next day. It was the second day that was bad.
As a PSA, ease into working out. If you go too hard to quick you may break your muscles down and destroy your kidneys as they try to filter the damage.