Lactic acid,

delayed onset muscle soreness, exercise induced hypoalgesia, or whatever it’s called, happened today. You know, when your muscles get sore 24 hours or so after exercising. This is the first time it’s crept up on me for a while (did you say hoowhile?). I thought it was when you over extend/stretch you muscles. But I don’t see that as a reason considering none of the activities (swimming, running or biking) stretch muscles. I didn’t push myself to exhaustion, nor did I forget to add the branch chain amino acids post work out.  I wonder if a 24 hour post work out diet consisting out the right amino acids or the right pH balance would diminish the tight muscle feeling. There’s only one way to find out. And that’s what I’m going to do.

That feeling happens to everyone at every level of conditioning. Is the ‘hair of the dog’ really the answer for the post workout hangover? Keep working out and it will diminish… I’m sure it will, but what if we add something to it, like the right nutrients? There are so many variables it’s nearly impossible to isolate them.  The only thing to do is what everyone else does, right? WRONG! If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get what everyone else gets. If you want to find out how your body ticks, consciously do something different, no matter how small. Do it for you. I’m doing it for me. I don’t read how to eliminate the feeling, not do I research how to work out without it happening in the first place.

My first reaction to sore muscles was to stretch, my second was to relax and the last was to work them again more. You can guess which one(s) I did. It really doesn’t matter how I did it. It only matters how you did it. Either way, tonight I feel fine. Tomorrow I swim at 5:30 AM.

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