What to do if your muscles hurt during exercise

I believe that many people have a love-hate relationship with exercise. They love it because it can exercise the body, enhance physical fitness and immunity, but they hate it because exercise is also very tiring, and one has to persist to see results. One of the reasons why it is difficult to persist is muscle pain after exercise. Generally, the whole body will feel weak after exercise, and after resting, there will be soreness all over the body. Why is this? Today, let’s talk about what to do if your muscles hurt after exercise.

In sports medicine, exercise-induced muscle soreness is divided into two types: one is pain that occurs immediately after exercise but disappears quickly, which is called acute muscle soreness. The other type occurs a few hours or overnight after exercise, accompanied by fatigue, and even muscle cramps and stiffness. This type of muscle pain disappears relatively slowly, and it often takes 3 to 4 days or even 6 to 7 days to fully recover. This symptom is called delayed muscle soreness or post-exercise fatigue. The muscle soreness that is often mentioned mainly refers to the latter type, namely delayed onset muscle soreness.

Prevention and treatment of muscle soreness:

1. Exercise arrangements should be reasonable. After a period of exercise, the muscle soreness that originally occurred will be less severe with less exercise. And the performance is specific. For example, downhill exercise can reduce muscle soreness caused by downhill exercise after a period of training.

2. Warm the area and apply medication. Soaking in warm water after a workout can help relieve muscle soreness. Topical oils, pastes, or rubs may also relieve pain.

3. Stretching exercises can relieve muscle soreness. Stretching muscles can accelerate muscle relaxation and relieve antagonist muscles, which helps the recovery of tense muscles. This muscle stretching exercise also lays the foundation for preventing strains during exercise.

4. Do a good job of warm-up and cool-down during exercise. Adequate warm-up and proper cool-down can help prevent or reduce muscle soreness.

Above I told you what to do if your muscles hurt during exercise? In fact, muscle pain during exercise is a normal phenomenon. People who exercise have all experienced it. To completely eliminate it, the body may need to adapt to the intensity of the exercise. Before that, we can only do a good job of prevention and treatment, such as warming up properly, exercising reasonably, and applying massage and medicine after exercise. I believe that muscle pain can be reduced to a certain extent.