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Work Out Knowhow - Relieving Your Aching Muscles

By: Lena Hellsten

If you're new to working out at the gym it's not uncommon to overdo the training, resulting in sore and aching muscles. This is not harmful in any way, but this pain that's experienced as a tightening, dull, local pain can lessen your strength for a while and is actually the body's way to say that it needs to rest to be able to recover properly.

What happens on a cellular level is that the fibers in the muscle are being torn, which causes the muscle cell to release content. The cell content attracts inflammatory cells and they release chemicals that irritate the nerve fibers and causes pain.

It's always best to not work out harder than your body can handle, but if the sore muscles are a fact, there are a few things that can make the pain go away faster.

By stretching the muscle after your workout, you prevent muscle soreness. The stretching prevents tightening and stiffness in the muscle which makes the blood and lymphatic fluids circulate with more ease.

A massage is a great way of getting the circulation in that specific body part going and makes it easier to flush the inflammatory cells. Do it slowly, start softly and increase the pressure a little bit at a time.

A hot bath can also be helpful, as well as spending some time in a sauna. The warmth makes the circulation more efficient and makes the healing process faster.

It's also a good idea to do some type of light exercise, such as walking or swimming to prevent stiffness in the muscles and also to get the circulation going.

It's also important to give your body a good warm up before your weight lifting. This makes the blood flow and the muscles will more efficiently respond to the activity without being torn and create pain.

Muscle soreness works as a great reminder for you to not work out as hard next time. Be easy on your body and let it guide you into finding the amount of pounds to lift that's just right for you and you will build you muscles fast and easily.

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