Does your body burn more calories when your muscles hurt from exercising?

Answer 1

No. The muscle pain is from lactic acid buildup. It has nothing to do with burning calories. It does show that you are working your muscles harder than usual and can be used as an indicator of sorts to show that you are progressing in your workouts.

You should try to work out at a level where you feel just at the edge of discomfort. If you feel sharp pain, you need to stop. If you just have mild soreness for a day or two, that's normal, and good.

There are also some recent studies that show that muscle tone has little to do with weight loss and calorie burning. Calorie burning has a direct relationship with the level of aerobic exercise. Better muscle tone does not affect it at all. What better muscle tone does, however, is allow you to work at a faster pace for longer times which will burn more calories.

Answer 2

The "hurt" is a result of small tears in your muscles that result from exercising at a level your body is not used to. Some people like this because it indicates that exercise has been effective. It takes more energy to work at a level you're not used to, so yes, you burn more calories. However, there is recovery time that also needs to be built into a workout routine that causes you to be sore, which means you can't work out as often, not comfortably, anyway.
So, it's like 9*1=9 and 3*3=9...If you choose to do exercise that may not make you sore the next day but which challenges you efficiently every other day, or you do a killer workout that makes you sore and limits your workouts during the week, it is very possible that you would receive the same benefit.
Challenge your muscles...You want to lift weight where you can get sufficient reps...do cardio that raises your heart rate efficiently...and you will get the same results as if you were sore for 2-3 days afterwards.

Answer 3

Yes and no. The better you get at a certain exercise, take running for example, the easier it is to maintain. After some time, you will be burning less calories because your heart and body is conditioned to consistently handle the stress and it takes less effort to maintain the same pace/time/reps/weight... Still, age changes things and no one can tell you without knowing your overall health and all that stuff, what it would take to maintain the same level of fitness. To my knowledge, eventually you age along with your heart and needs which means over a very long period of time, you cannot do the exact same workout and maintain the same level of fitness. It doesn't necessarily mean that as you age you would have to increase the time spent on cardio, or that doing less would be sufficient to maintain your overall health.

Answer 4

No, you burn the same amount of calories as you would with out the pain. However the more muscle mass you have the more calories you burn.

When your muscles hurt it's because you have torn the muscle. Don't be freaked out by this because it's what happens when you build muscle.

If your looking to bulk up then your are to do short reps with heavier weights.

Answer 5

Your body burns calories regardless, even when you are resting. When your muscles are sore that is an indicator you worked them. However, when there is pain or severe discomfort it usually means you overdid it. Remember you only want to go as far as working your muscles, not pulling one or tearing one. It also happens when you do not warm up correctly as well. Hope this answers your ?

Answer 6

That is right. The amount of calories burn are directly propotional to amount of work done. By exercising we do an amount of work so calories are burnt.