muscle soreness?

Question

What can you do to alleviate muscle soreness in the legs?

Answer 1

Just keep working it out! It will go away when your legs become better conditioned. It could be an issue of potassium also. Drink lots of Gatorade. For temporary relief to already sore muscles you need to heat your muscles with a hot shower and have the muscles rubbed and messaged very firmly! Or use an electronic muscle stimulator. Very important to heat your muscles with wet heat not a heating pad. They are fairly cheap on Ebay and make a world of difference for sore muscles not only in the legs but the neck, shoulders, arms etc. Get one for future relief. Here are some on Ebay. I got mine there!
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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

Have a bath with Epsom salts or rub Tiger Balm on them. Tiger balm is smelly just to warn you.

Answer 4

ice ice ice.... dont go sit in a tub full of ice but get some bags of ice and put a towel over it and rest your legs on it.. when your done with about 20 mins of that, use icy hot, bengay , or somethign to that extent and rub it in, sorry for your pain, muscle pain sux big time, i go through it alot because of training for track and field, but i promise this works.....

Answer 5

take a bath in epsom salt and massage them yourself that is what i do