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Muscle soreness after an intense workout training session is pretty much a fact of life for anyone trying to gain weight by building muscle mass naturally. Well, according to Muscle and Fitness, there are ways to train to help alleviate or almost eliminate this.

According to the magazine, researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz had athletes perform a nine week full body workout. The magazine says, “The control group performed each set and sat down to rest between sets. The cardioacceleration group first performed a twenty minute warm up to get their heart rates up to about 60 - 85 percent of their max heart rates in the target range. Researchers found that the cardioacceleration group experienced less muscle soreness in all muscle groups trained and DOMS was eliminated by the fourth week. The control group continued to experience muscle soreness”.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that when you maintain your heart rate high throughout an entire workout you’ll improve your metabolism and your body’s ability to remove toxins and bring fresh and much needed nutrients to the hard working muscle groups.

So if your involved in a workout program designed for muscle building and weight gain keep that heart pumping, not just your pecs!