Sore muscles: No problem!
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From Horus:
Look in the sports forum, in the pegged strand with advice and tips - in the last few posts it's all about sore muscles.
Short version:
- Heat helps. So warm bath, hot shower, sauna, if it is really bad warm wrap with relaxation essences - Moderate exercise helps, as this promotes blood circulation and thus the healing process. But please not the same movement that has led to muscle soreness - the much-heard advice, "soreness the same again" is outdated and counterproductive. The best way to do relaxed walks, cycling (except the soreness comes from cycling), swimming (water relaxes and massages gently). - Warming relaxation creams - patience. Soreness sounds off by itself.
Whether massage helps is controversial. She can relieve. But she can still stress the aching muscle.
Muscle soreness does not come from metabolic waste products in the muscle, as has long been thought, but most likely from minute inflammation and rupture within the muscle fibers due to overstressing. Sore muscles are actually a minor injury. Accordingly, the therapy: to promote warmth, relaxation, blood circulation. But do not burden.
Which also says that sore muscles is not healthy. And not, as you often hear, necessary for the training progress. He should be avoided like any other injury. But I know from personal experience that this does not always work ...
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