How do you stop muscle aches from exercise?

Answer 1

Warm-up before strenuous exercise is important. Stretch each muscle group before and after exercise and increase exercise gradually. All aches and pains cannot be avoided all the time, but this should help.

If you've worked out too hard, I was told by a trainer that you should shock your muscles. You soak in hot as you can stand it water for a few minutes, standup, and then turn on the cold shower. It's uncomfortable at the time, but from what I've heard, well worth it.

Answer 2

I feel your pain ... you can use pain gels they kinda burn but they really help the pain ... but that is just temporary relief ... the pain is due to the lactic acid build up after strenous excersice so it just takes time.

Answer 3

I'm sure there are other solutions, but....

Your muscles are most likely hurting because you have exercised them in a way that you hadn't exercised often before. Keep exercising them so that they stretch out and get "used to it".

Answer 4

To minimize muscle pain after excercise the best option would be to stretch before and after your workout, the muscle pain you are more then likely experiancing, is a mild discomfort from almost immediatly and up to 72 hours after a workout, if this is correct you are experiancing, as it is called in the trade, D.O.M.S, this is short for "Delayed onset of muscular soreness!" This is caused from your muscles litteraly "ripping" hence the term "going to get RIPPED!!" when you excercise you are actually damaging and ripping the muscle you are working, by overloading it or fatiguing it with a weight or from continues movement. This should not stop you from excercising however as it is the natural way for your body to develop and grow! Never stretch a "cold" muscle, this means always have a small 5-10 minute warm up on a treadmill, rower,bike, or walk previous to your stretch in order to allow blood to circulate around your body and muscles, also it is recommended you do the same at the end of a workout so as that you allow your heart rate to drop slowly back down to its resting BP. A stretch of a singular or several muslces after this "warm up" or "cool down" period will minimize the discomfort after your workout and also help your body to adapt to it in future, taking the discomfort less and less time to disappear after a workout, another trick would be to have a nice hot bath after a workout in order to once again allow your blood to pump around your body and "sooth" your muscles, making them less tight and softer, aiding with Venus return. :-)

DOMS pain results from a buildup of lactic acid in the muscles after strenuous exercise. This buildup is part of your body's way of building bigger and stronger muscles. Drinking pickle juice is supposed to help, but it interferes with this building process.

Answer 5

You are talking about DOMS (delayed onset muscular soreness). Your muscles do not grow in the gym. Instead, what you do in the gym is catabolic; it tears your muscles down. In response, if you let them recover properly and get good nutrition, they repair themselves and grow outside the gym. In order to ensure systemic as well as localized recovery, wait 24 or 48 hours after all DOMS has disappeared before training again. If you do not, you will be in danger of overtraining, which could decrease your muscular size and strength. Therefore, when you have DOMS, take them as a positive sign that you are encouraging your body to grow.

Answer 6

before you exercise you need to stretch out your muscles then after your workout take a warm bath or shower this will help allot

Answer 7

use hot or cold water bags, switch them every 5 min..

Answer 8

You can eat some protein to repair your muscles from pain, and stretch out different parts of your body that you usually work out with to reduce the pain.

Answer 9

Ice Bath