No Pain, No Gain!

This week I want to talk about muscles soreness. The amount of pain you get from the session the day before can determine the success of your session. Muscles soreness can also be seen as a badge of honour that a person has earned because of how hard they pushed themselves. I want to tell you what this muscles soreness is and give you a few helpful tips to help you through the pain.The muscles soreness is called delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS for short. DOMS is caused due to muscle breakdown during intense exercise. DOMS should be limited to your muscles and not your joints or tendons. The discomfort should only last for 24-48 hours after an intense session.Ways to decrease DOMS:·       Making you sure you have a good warm up including session specific exercises. For example if you are squatting use body weight squats as part of your warm up.·       A good cool down with targeted stretches. Making sure you include a full body approach moving the joint through your full ROM - (range of movement). Stretching the day after and making sure you are not sitting for a long period of time will relieve muscle pain.·       Try walking around your office or making sure you don't sit still for to long. Increasing blood flow to your muscles will aid recovery and alleviate soreness.·       If you are chronically sore it can be due to a lack of recovery or not eating enough kcal. So make sure you are getting enough sleep and an appropriate amount of calories for the amount of exercise you are doing.If you found this useful please like and share.Also make sure you are signed up to the bear drills email list so you get lots of great tips straight to your inbox. Like Bear Drills Facebook page and Twitter.Have a great week,Tomwww.bear-drills.comFacebook: bear drills fitnessInstagram: bear_drillsTwitter: @bear_drills