Should you stretch when sore reddit

A good stretch has always been the go-to prescription for sore muscles.

How to relieve sore muscles from stretching

But do forward folds and bicep stretches actually do anything? To find an answer to this surprisingly complex question, it helps to know why soreness occurs in the first place.

When you work out, or place any sort of strain on your muscles, it causes little micro tears in the tissue, says Austin Martinez, MS, CSCS, ATC, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and director of education for StretchLab.

“The sensation of soreness comes from these ‘micro tears’ and the subsequent inflammatory process,” he tells Bustle, as well as a build-up of lactic acid and other byproducts in the muscle.

While soreness sets in at different times for different people, you’ll probably feel it within a couple of hours after your workout, says TJ Mentus, an ACE-certified personal trainer.

There is, however, a more severe form of muscle soreness called delayed onset muscle soreness, or DOMS, which could show up a few days later. “The longer it takes for DOMS to set in the worse it end

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