Two Ways To Get Rid Of Muscle Soreness
Thursday, June 26th, 2008If you are hitting the weights hard and are working out intensely, then you should be experiencing sore muscles now and then, not that it’s needed on a daily basis to stimulate muscle building and weight gain. Well, unless you enjoy pain during every waking moment, soreness can really be a pain…..no pun intended.
Other than quickly reaching for you bottle of aspirin or Advil, two things you can do to help relieve some of that muscular soreness is:
1) Weight training (the blood flow the brain signals to the working muscles helps take in nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, calories, hormones, etc., but also takes away or removes toxins).
2) Drink caffeine (some studies claim that it can reduce pain by up to half).
Again, you have to be training hard enough to every now and then induce soreness within the muscle, not to be confused the pain that comes from an actual injury. All of these things will make your muscle building and weight gaining experience much more pleasant.