2006-09-23 06:38:18 · 7 answers · asked by Kerry H 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
When you exercise, your muscles are exerting much more than they would in regular activities. This causes microscopic tears to appear in the muscle tissue and it builds up the longer you exercise. In time, those tears heal and your body overcompensates by building more muscle. That is why you hurt a day after you've exercised.
If you want to know why your muscles hurt when you are in the process of exercising, it's a different story. When your muscles are flexing, they're using up the fat, proteins and carbs in your body along with the oxygen you're breathing in as energy. When you work really hard, there isn't enough oxygen for the muscles, so they use another method to burn all the calories in the fat, proteins and carbs and this produces a acid-like byproduct. When that acid-like byproduct (called lactic acid) collects in your muscles, you begin to feel the soreness that you get when you run or do anything strenuous for a long time.
2006-09-23 06:45:45 · answer #1 · answered by Yu_pimp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you haven't exercised, or done strenuous activity for a while, and then you "force" your body into doing something it's not used to doing, then your muscles react. They don't like being "stretched". But then after a while, they get used to it...and your body feels entirely better.
2006-09-23 06:48:44 · answer #2 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (or DOMS). It is caused by overexerting the muscles beyond your physical condition level. If you exercise at an elevated heart rate, you can often avoid this pain. Elevate your heart, stretch, and then exercise more.
2006-09-23 06:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the type of pain, in weight training, if you are into heavy weight, you get a pain called "pump" (I think) that is caused by the stress that you created in the muscles small tears in the fibers and what not, this stress causes the muscles to respond by growing new and stronger fibers. thats why you dont wieght train the same muscles daily, because it wont alow them to grow.
2006-09-23 06:48:00 · answer #4 · answered by head_banger_yyc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea ur body gets sore cuz its not used to working out but to make it go away faster is keep working out even if it hurts and eventually u wont get sore no more
2006-09-23 06:41:18 · answer #5 · answered by bigboss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u stretched ur muscles and ur body is not use to it
2006-09-23 06:45:41 · answer #6 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you overworked the muscle or you are out of shape.
2006-09-23 06:42:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋