Sore Muscles After you Exercise?
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a result of exercising to a point where you cause micro tears in your muscle fibers. It is the same mechanism by which you develop bigger muscles, as the muscle fibres heal thicker and stronger.
To speed up your recovery there are a few recommended techniques, although none of them work 100% of the time.
1. Rest and recovery. After 2-3 days the most part of the pain should be gone, as your muscles have healed, extra muscle has been layed down, and the inflammation has settled.
2. Stretching. Gentle stretching of the effected muscles groups can speed up your recovery, by realigning muscle fibres and increasing blood flow to the area.
3. Massage. Massage with increase blood flow, push out some inflammation and stimulate the area to promote healing, you must exercise caution, as too much pressure can aggravate the area and be quite painful.