Why do I get muscle soreness after exercise?

Regular exercise is very good for the body, but many male friends are too busy at work to have time for regular exercise, so when they have time to do some strenuous exercise, they will experience muscle soreness. The main reason for muscle soreness is that they do not exercise regularly. So how should we relieve muscle soreness?

If you don't exercise regularly, you will easily experience muscle soreness once you do more strenuous exercise. This is generally the reason why people find it difficult to stick to exercise. In order to stick to exercise for a long time, everyone should learn how to reduce the muscle soreness caused by exercise.

Good health is a prerequisite for our happy life, and exercise is an important way to stay healthy. Therefore, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to exercise. However, the muscle soreness after exercise makes many people eventually give up exercise. How to alleviate this symptom?

Various forms of human body movement are mainly completed by muscle contraction. Muscle contraction requires energy, which is mainly provided by the decomposition of carbohydrates in muscle tissue.

In the presence of sufficient oxygen, such as when the human body is at rest, the carbohydrates in the muscles are directly broken down into carbon dioxide and water, releasing a large amount of energy.

However, when the human body is engaged in strenuous activities, skeletal muscles urgently need a large amount of energy. Although respiratory movement and blood circulation are greatly enhanced at this time, they still cannot meet the muscle tissue's demand for oxygen, causing the muscles to be in a state of temporary hypoxia. As a result, sugars break down into lactic acid, releasing relatively little energy.

When lactic acid accumulates in the muscles, it stimulates the nerve endings in the muscles and produces a feeling of soreness. The accumulation of lactic acid increases the osmotic pressure in the muscles, causing the muscle tissue to absorb more water and produce local swelling.

For people who exercise regularly, their muscles can get more sufficient oxygen during exercise, and less lactic acid is produced by the breakdown of sugars, so there will be no obvious pain in the muscles.

The above is some information compiled by the editor on how to reduce the muscle soreness I really felt yesterday after exercise. I hope that friends who exercise after the editor’s introduction above can pay attention to it. You should do some warm-up exercises before exercising, relax more after exercise, and arrange the exercise time and intensity reasonably.