My muscles hurt after exercise, what should I do

In order to have a healthy body, people nowadays need to exercise every day to strengthen their physical fitness. However, some people may find that their muscles ache after exercising. What is going on? In fact, we have learned in middle school textbooks that the reason is that lactic acid is produced during anaerobic respiration during exercise. So, what should you do if you have muscle pain after a workout?

Why do muscles ache after exercise?

Let’s first explain why muscles become sore after exercise. Generally, this kind of muscle soreness after exercise is due to the large amount of lactic acid produced during the training process. When the lactic acid produced by the human body during exercise is greater than the lactic acid consumed by the body itself, the lactic acid will hinder blood circulation and eventually cause muscle soreness.

However, the lactic acid produced by exercise is a normal phenomenon and only gives people a feeling of soreness. Generally, it will disappear automatically in about 5 days if you don't continue exercising. If you continue to exercise, it will disappear in 2 to 3 days.

What to do if you have muscle soreness after exercise

Finally, let’s answer what to do if you have muscle soreness after exercise. In this case, there are two options, one is to enjoy the soreness, and the other is to eliminate and relieve the soreness.

Enjoying the muscle soreness after exercise is easy. It means letting the lactic acid produced in the body disappear automatically, so you can just rest after exercise. In fact, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, it will generally disappear automatically in about 5 days.

There are generally two ways to eliminate and relieve muscle soreness after exercise.

The first way is to do aerobic exercise after your muscles are sore. As mentioned earlier, long-term aerobic exercise is beneficial to the automatic decomposition of lactic acid produced in the body and the generation of energy, thereby reducing the accumulation of lactic acid in the body and eliminating and relieving muscle soreness after exercise.

The second method is to perform effective stretching after your muscles become sore. The principle of eliminating and relieving muscle soreness after exercise is to disperse the lactic acid that has gathered together and hindered blood circulation, thereby eliminating and relieving local muscle soreness. This type of muscle stretching requires the practitioner to understand how to stretch muscles throughout the body.

Muscle pain after exercise is not a serious matter. Sometimes this is just due to lack of exercise, so don't worry too much. There are many ways to relieve muscle pain after exercise, and the effects vary from person to person. Generally, aerobic exercise or massage are recommended. You may want to give it a try.