Normally the day after exercise and pushing yourself to your limits and beyond your body will be in pain. Not because you are a big jessie...you may be but normally its just your body repairing itself and for it to do its job properly in building that new muscle it wants to stop you using them.
That means causing you pain.
But there are ways to counteract muscle pain. And it starts when you finish your exercise regime. Chilling the muscles quickly stimulates them into cooling much more quickly. It halts the production of Lactic acid and as you warm up again stimulates circulation and removal of lactic acid.
Contrast Showers (those of you with families will know this as someone flushing the toilet whilst you have a hot shower) stimulate your circulation almost as well as an Ice Bath would.
Yeah, you read it right, an ICE BATH! although I don't have a freezer big enough to make that much ice but living in Scotland means water is always pretty cold and just filling a bath with it can be enough specially on hot tired muscles.
Now, no matter what you do after the exercise, its absolutely vital that you do not just sit on your bum and do nothing the next day, even if its just a brisk 4 mile walk, you HAVE to move. Get the blood flowing. Your limbs will feel tired but they will not feel as painful. I promise!
And if they do hurt...well then I guess you really are a big jessie!
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