What to do if your thigh hurts after running

Running is the most popular sport nowadays. Men, women, young and old have all joined this group. But some people have discovered that their thighs hurt a lot after running. Why? In fact, this is caused by our incorrect running method. Of course, other reasons are not ruled out. So today I will tell you what to do if your legs hurt when running, and how to prepare before running?

Do finishing exercises.

To avoid leg pain after running, it is recommended that you do warm-up exercises and stretch your muscles before exercise. After running, doing simple cool-down exercises can help avoid leg pain to a certain extent.

Apply hot towel.

Applying a hot towel to the painful part of your leg can effectively relieve leg pain. If the pain is widespread, you can also consider taking a hot bath to promote blood circulation.

Tap and massage the painful area.

We can tap and massage our legs to promote the excretion of lactic acid in the muscles, so that the leg pain will soon go away.

Keep exercising.

When your legs hurt when you run, it must be because you haven't exercised for a long time. So as long as you keep running and stretch your leg muscles every day, you won’t feel pain in the future.

Seek medical attention if you have severe pain.

If the pain is persistent or tearing, it is probably a muscle strain and you should seek medical attention immediately.

Before running

The human body's internal organs and limbs need an adaptation process from a relatively static state to a more intense activity. Therefore, people should also do appropriate warm-up exercises before running so that the body's physiological functions can work in a coordinated manner while moving. If you do not do warm-up exercises before running, you will often sprain your joint ligaments and tendons during long-distance running. This is especially likely to happen if you start running intensely right away. Before running, you can generally do the following warm-up exercises:

(1) Stand with your hands on your hips and move your ankles alternately;

(2) Half squat, support your knees with both hands and move your knee joints;

(3) Raise your legs alternately to move your hip joints;

(4) Put your hands on your waist and rotate your waist to move your waist;

(5) Support with one hand, kick the legs forward and backward in sequence, and move the hip and knee joints;

(6) Lunge forward and backward to stretch the legs; stretch the legs left and right to stretch the leg ligaments;

(7) Bending the upper body forward and backward and slight movements of the upper limbs.

Only the correct posture can make you run fast, efficiently and less prone to injury. One of the keys to burning fat is to run as close to your anaerobic threshold as possible, and proper form allows you to reach this intensity without wasting extra energy.

The above is an article about what to do if your thighs hurt after running. I believe everyone should have some understanding of it. As long as we follow what is said in the article, we can relieve the pain in our legs. Of course, it is still recommended that you choose the correct running method and don't forget to warm up.