How do you get soreness out of your muscles?

Question

I went water skiing yesterday and now my shoulders, neck and arms are stiff and sore. My neck is bothering me most. The soreness is like making it really painful to move it. I already tried to stretch and that was really painful. Any tips on how to get rid of it quickly would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Your muscles are sore due to the microscopic tears in fibers that occur with over use. You can reduce some of the discomfort by stretching the sore muscles often to keep them from tightening up along with participating in light cardiovascular training to get the blood and lymphatic systems moving (to assist flushing of remaining waste products like lactic acid). Anti-inflammatories such as ibuprophen can help relieve the pain, and so might a hot soak or a steam.

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

Well it was once thought that soreness in excersise and weight training was caused by lactic acid, but research shows that lactic acid dissapears pretty fast ruling it out. the actuall reason for muscle soreness is becuase of the stretching or tearing of the muscle fibres in ways that they arent used to beeing stretched.

weight training = tears

skiing = stretch my guess

Answer 4

well you my frend tore yourmuscles
they will grow bak bigger
ur gunna b SWOLL hahah eat alota protein rich foods itll make the soreness go away
scspec is fulla ****
streching wont help you thatll mak it worse and cardiovascualr **** wont either
son only way to make it go away is eat alota protein
IM TELLLING YOU LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!! even tho ur prob gunna listen to her
but w.e
oh yeah and thats not cuzza lactic acid cuz wen ur doing something that works your muscles the lactic acid automatically disappears
sounds weird
but it does
so dont listen
yeah
ya digg?

Answer 5

You got sore because you used muscles you weren't use to using. The best quickest way is to work those muscles and work it out.

Answer 6

It sounds like tendon stretching. it should go away in a few days, if you can tough it out.

Answer 7

try to drink some whey protein shakes to help your muscles recover. You can also take a hot shower then take a cold shower.

Answer 8

drink lots of water and try not to work these muscles for a little, until it doesn't hurt anymore. but try to strech them slowly so you wont pull them or make them worse but it will help loosen them instead of them being tightened.

-Rachel♥