What helps speed muscle soreness?

Question

Is there anything I can do or eat that can speed along muscle soreness from weight lifting?

Answer 1

Sadly, not much. The soreness is because of a buildup of lactic acid remaining in your muscles. Drink plenty of water, massage the sore muscle and do stretches.

Answer 2

Some muscle soreness is to be expected from weight training. Part of that soreness is from the tissue being 'torn', and then the process or rebuilding takes place. Another cause of muscle soreness is lactic acid accumulation. This occurs when muscle is working very hard, in an anaerobic (without oxygen) state. Some things you can do are warming up the body and particularly the body part you will be exercising, as well as warming down - very light repetitions of the weight training exercises you just finished. LIGHT stretching is helpful, but be careful not to stretch too much - this could cause injury. Stretching and light exercises help prevent lactic acid rich blood from pooling in the tissue, which causes some of the soreness, and improves blood flow (to carry oxygen and nugtrient-rich blood to the muscle as well as help hasten the removal of waste products from tissue). Some dietary supplements that are helpful are NO2 boosters (vasodilators) and anything that has at least a gram or more of malic acid (a compound found naturally in fruits, but also used as an ingredient to provide tartness in iced teas and lemonade). Pure malic acid can be found in better dietary supplement stores. Take one or two capsules about 1 hour prior to training. It helps recycle some of the lactic acid that accumulates into usable muscle energy, so it may delay muscle fatigue a bit when you're training as well as soreness the day after. And make sure you are getting adequate protein (in the form of whey isolate) within 20 minutes after your training session. Whey isolate is a very fast absorbing protein that helps to support muslce tissue repair and growth. Also, give each body part at least 3 - 4 days to fully recuperate before training it again. Rest is just as important for growth as training hard is. Good luck with your training program.

Answer 3

When i Get Muscle Sores I Sit Down, With A Bottle Of Water And A Little Bit Of Fruit And relax, It gets better naturally!

Answer 4

NO there is no magic food. The reason your muscles are sore is because when u do weight training in essence what you are doing is tearing the fiberous tissue that makes up the muscle, then when they repair itself with new tissue your muscles get bigger. That is what is going on when u build muscle, so no there is no cure to speed it up, but using the muscles and massageing them does help eleveate the soreness.

Answer 5

The soreness disappears in approximately seventy two hours after appearing. If medical care is needed, any degree that will strengthen blood bypass to the muscle, which incorporate low-intensity artwork, rubdown, warm baths, or a sauna pass to would help particularly.

Answer 6

Have you tried using Deep Heat Spray, or even Heat Bandages that you can buy their products from boots, the price range is about £1.99 - £4.99

This is a link to the boots site with the best products to try:

http://www.boots.com/guidedsearch/newsearch.jsp?searchArea=1&searchTerm=deep+heat&uri=%2Fhome.jsp&classificationId=&contentId=&articleId=&N=0&Ntk=all&Nty=1

Answer 7

Resting the muscle--no using it until pain subsides, ibuprofen, (advil or motrin) if you have no allergy or any history of stomach problems, and ice.

Answer 8

Coral Calcium. It helps reduce lactic acid build-up.

Answer 9

Stay loose with light exercise. No lifting.

Answer 10

I used the naturopathic substance, Arnica.