After my post about Diet Safety. Now I am going to write about Muscle Soreness with Exercise. There are two common kinds of exercise-related muscle soreness. The first is acute soreness, the kind that occurs during or immediately after exercise. This is the type of soreness caused by excess lactic acid flooding into your muscles. The discomfort usually subsides after a minute or two of rest. Once the soreness goes away, you can usually continue exercising without any residual effects. A second type of muscle soreness is delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
It develops 12 hours or longer after exercise. DOMS is thought to be a result of microscopic tearing of the muscle fibers. The soreness you feel reaches its peak within two days after the activity and subsides over the next few days. A certain amount of DOMS is a reasonable and expected consequence of getting in shape; but if you are so sore that your legs buckle when you walk down stairs or you can barely lift a pencil, you have overdone it.
