Re: Severe DOMS - Legs, HELP!

Matt wrote:

<snip> After a round of squats and lunges,
the next 48 hours are almost unbearable
in terms of soreness. I'm 26 and I feel like
a 90 year old man, I can't get in and out of
cars, walk up stairs, nothing.

[...]

Is anyone in the same boat as me - if so,
any remedies or recommendations?

DOMS happens. Suck it up.

No, seriously. Suck it up.

"Ow, ow, ow! I did lunges and now my legs hurt. Waaah!" Stop.

best,
MLV

Okay, now that you've stopped crying, ya big (uh, did you say 6'6" and
280 lbs.?), ya ~*BIG*~ baby, hit Starbucks, pronto.

"That morning cup of coffee may be an antidote to post-exercise muscle
soreness, if preliminary research is correct.

Researchers found that a caffeine supplement seemed to lessen the
familiar muscle pain that crops up the day after a particularly
challenging workout.

Known as delayed-onset muscle soreness, or DOMS, the pain is common in
the day or two after a workout that was more intense than normal.
Exercise that involves eccentric contraction of the muscles is
particularly likely to cause delayed muscle pain.

In eccentric contraction, the muscle produces a force while it's being
lengthened. This happens when a person runs downhill, for example, or
lowers a weight during a bicep curl.

Exercisers and researchers alike have tried many ways to prevent DOMS
- including over-the-counter painkillers, stretching and massage - but
studies have found no cure-all for the problem." /copy and paste

More @:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-01-17T195046Z_01_HAR769880_RTRUKOC_0_US-CAFFEINE-PAIN.xml
aka http://tinyurl.com/2rr9ap

--
Curt

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