Muscle soreness is not necessarily an indicator of exercise effect. There are many reasons for muscle soreness, such as not exercising regularly, improving exercise intensity, stopping exercise for a while and then resuming exercise. Maintaining exercise can slow down the degree and frequency of muscle soreness. After strenuous exercise, our muscles also need time to recover, so muscle soreness should be sporadic, not a normal state.
Muscle ache after normal training is a sign of training effect. However, if there are injuries such as muscle strain during training, it is easy to be covered up by delayed muscle soreness. If the soft tissue around the joint is injured, it is necessary to reduce the training load so that the joint is not stressed at the painful angle.
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Identification of muscle soreness and muscle strain;
1, pressing method
When you press muscles with your fingers, muscle soreness becomes a large area of pain after normal exercise, and it is symmetrical. For example, after bench press, chest muscle pain becomes a large area of pain, and both left and right chest muscles are painful in the same place. However, muscle strain is usually a little painful and asymmetrical.
2. Shrinkage stretching method
Muscle aches after normal exercise, and the pain is relieved when muscle is stretched statically; Pain increases when muscles contract hard; But muscle strain means that the pain increases when stretching muscles.
In addition, severe muscle strain, such as muscle tear, will be accompanied by severe pain, followed by local swelling and fever immediately after injury.
Therefore, after discovering that you have a slight muscle strain, you should avoid the exertion of the injured muscle in the next training, and then gradually resume strength training after the pain completely disappears.
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