How to reduce muscle soreness

[-The Glove-]

BCAA's, Glutamine, Beta Alanine.

[Clegg]

Some good advice above.

You might not be doing anything wrong though. If you have a tough leg workout, you are going to be sore the next day, and probably the day after that.

[jonesy]

Ice bath if ur man enough.

[jonesy]

Make sure you stretch and cool down properly after working out.

Make sure you're eating enough carbs and protein to recover.

Possibly take a glutamine supplement.


Actually, I just read you have 4 hours - take a long, hot bath after stretching lightly. Give yourself a light massage in the bath or just after. When you go to training or w/e it is you're doing make sure youre thoroughly warmed up and stretched. Thats about the best you can do.

Wtf! what muscle are you talking about? .

[Squirrel]

Wtf! what muscle are you talking about? .

Oh dear ..

[GlasJaw17]

Its delayed onset muscle soreness. Check it out on wikipedia.

"DOMS disappears in about 72 hours after appearing. If treatment is desired, any measure that increases blood flow to the muscle, such as low-intensity work, massage, hot baths, or a sauna visit may help somewhat"

"There are claims in the literature that exercising sore muscles appears to be the best way to reduce or eliminate the soreness, but this has not yet been systematically investigated"

That game of B-ball probably helped. I also hear that lots of water, fruits, and veggies seem to help.

[P-Killer]

Always have a bath before bed. Bath salts help a lot

Eat protein to rebuild.

Use some kinda oils like Menthol to help the pain and warm up muscles.
Vaporub if you have it in you country.

[D.I.E.S.E.L]

Keep working out till you're used to it and sucking it up. Real talk...

stretch, eat good food, and sleep.

take it easy..if you're so sore that you don't have energy to workout then take it lightly and slowly build up...

hot shower every three hours.

this this and that. Although i'd say hot shower every 3 hours is a excessive. You should shower twice, mix it up with hot and cold showers. also work thru the pain, most of the time once u start warming up in the gym the pain goes away but comes back after your body cools down.

[alza1988]

Sup fellas?

Basicly we had a real rough workout focusing on the legs on monday, and my legs still hurt. its summer so we only train as a group on mon, wed, and friday. i usually workout by myself the atleast twice a week, but thats not the point though.

the point is we had rough workout, then yesterday i was just gonna chill. but instead i had a spliff and some beer and decided theres no harm in a little basketball. but as soon as i wasnt high no more my legs started hurting like hell after playing ball after already aching from training the day before. i could barely walk.

now is wednesday, another day of training and i have to plus really want to go. any way to reduce the muscle soreness before my practise in a little over 4 hours? i realize i cant make it go away, but just reduce it so i can go work my hands in the gym.

thanks in advance.

I used to have the same problem .Stretch yourr legs off more often after your workout .I stretch about 2 to 3 times after legs through the day and hold them for atleast 30 seconds just to make sure .

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

When you do take protein, take it max, 30 minutes after the work out. Ice bath if it's really bad and ibuprofen to reduce swelling.