Myth #2-If you're not sore, your workout didn’t count?

Myth #2 If you’re not sore, your workout didn’t count- I hear this one all the time. By this logic, when I sit in my chair too long and my back gets sore, then I just had a killer “sitting session?” J Soreness can be a side effect of a tough workout that has produced muscle tissue breakdown. This is a good thing; however that should not be happening all the time. If it is, your body is not getting enough time to recover. If you help someone move or work in the garden, you’re likely to be sore the next day. Mainly because you overtaxed some muscles that didn’t have the ability to work at that capacity for that amount of time. I get results for people all the time with workouts that don’t make them sore. Don’t read that wrong. You will get sore sometimes, but the point is it should be more seldom than more often.

So, if you do get sore, the following are tips to reduce your soreness:
1.      Stretch and massage. You should stretch after you workout while your muscles are warmed up. Manual massage or foam rolling will help as well.
2.      Drinking plenty of water can help get rid of the byproducts (mostly lactic acid) of your workout that are making you sore. As a side note, water also flushes the remnants of the fat burning process through our sweat and urine.
3.      Biofreeze or a similar product is also great for relieving soreness temporarily.   

     
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