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About Muscle Soreness

If you are just starting off training with weights, this information may be of use to you!
During a weight training session, muscle fibres are damaged on a microscopic level. Depending on the training style, nutrition and recovery this damage is repaired to make you stronger, faster or bigger. Another reason for soreness is lactic acid buildup in the muscle causing damage.

This soreness can be reduced by correct warming down and stretching, or by post exercise massage. However, when starting a weight training regime, there is no escaping the fact there will be some soreness, as the muscles are not used to doing work! This soreness will usually last for 2-3 days as a dull ache in the muscles. The good news is, it gets better every time you train! Training accustoms the muscles to the stresses upon them, and over time the body becomes used to the process. When this occurs, you will find you do not get any muscle soreness. At this point you may miss the old aching muscles and wonder if your training is working! The answer is that the soreness is not an indication of a good workout, it is caused by a movement pattern or stress that the body is unaccustomed to, so your workout will still give results despite not causing as much soreness.

So initially you will experience some discomfort when you start training, but the good news is that is quickly passes and the best thing to do is to carry on training. If you stop training due to soreness, you will always be as sore when trying to start again. Once you have got past the initial few weeks, you will tend to not get as sore from the workout, but may be sore again when new movements or stresses are introduced.