Muscle pain after exercise. Here are 3 ways to relax them

After an intense workout or unusual load in the gym, you may experience a burning sensation in your muscles that does not go away for several days. When is it normal to feel pain and when is it not? How to relieve muscle spasms? We answer popular questions.

What we will talk about in this text:

Why do muscles hurt after training?

Is it true that after a good workout your muscles should “burn”?
Three effective methods that will tell you how to relax your muscles.
Is it possible to exercise when your muscles hurt?
Muscle pain after exercise is a common occurrence
As a rule, muscle pain after a workout is associated with excessive physical activity, which the muscles simply did not have time to cope with. The pain occurs due to microtrauma of muscle tissue and excess lactic acid in the muscles. In most cases, such pain can be with you for 2-3 days after a workout (depending on your level of physical fitness).

There is also delayed pain, which begins to be felt only 2-3 days after the workout. It is often associated with the fact that you changed the intensity of the workout or the program itself during the previous workout. This type of pain can be with you for up to a week.

It is not uncommon for pain to be directly related to muscle injury. It may appear due to muscle rupture and will be accompanied by an increase even with habitual movements, along with it there is often swelling and redness. With injury, the pain is often acute and may appear already during the training itself. With such persistent pain, you should not self-medicate: a doctor's consultation is necessary.

Which muscles can hurt after a workout? Actually, any. More precisely, those that you used the most during the load. These can be the muscles of the legs, back, arms, and even the neck (while it may seem to you that you did not use them at all during the process). Here, not only the training process itself plays a role, but also the correctness of the exercises.