Sore Muscle after workout

Your muscles are sore because during workout you have torn the muscle tissue apart. That's not bad because your body is working to compensate them with newer and stronger tissues, which is good, this stimulates the muscle to heal and grow back stronger .It happens usually between 1-2 days of starting a new workout and eventually your muscle will no longer become sore after (1-2 weeks).

But the important part of working out is recovery time. Your body does need time to recover and give your muscles time to grow. When muscles do not get sufficient recovery time, they will not come back stronger, over training results in lowered performance, and too often leads to injury.

Recovery from sore muscles will take two to three days. A common misunderstanding is that a workout on sore muscles will speed recovery because it stimulates blood flow. This is true but that does not mean doing another work out with sore muscles, and get an end result of over training syndrome. When you have sore muscles you should stimulate blood flow with a massage and stretching,

So go to the gym and do some stretching. It’s the rest period that brings your muscles back a little stronger than before the workout. Always work out 4-5 days a week, leave your body 2-3 days of recovery. If you follow this routine into your training plan it will help you to prevent over training.

During this rest period drink plenty of fluids, eat complex carbohydrates to replenish glycogen in your muscles and liver and sleep full 8 hours like a baby. If your performance does not improve after a few days then it may be an indicator of over training. Then either add more recovery time in your training program or plan an alternate workout routine. Split up your muscle groups into separate, such as do chest and arms (forearm, biceps and triceps) one day, legs another, and back and deltoids (shoulder). So each group gets sufficient rest.