More Gain – Less Pain

”No pain no gain!” is a motto most oftenly used as motivation for people to achieve something through a hard process. One of the occasion would be to motivate yourself in training your muscles for athletic body. But more often than not, the pain after exercising becomes the problem. The pain after exercising makes you lazy to wake up in the morning, do your daily routine, or even make you lazy to exercise more. Am I right? :)

Which movements make you feel the pain?

The muscle pain is caused by a ot of movement and activity types. But the two types being held responsible are activities or movements against gravitation just like running down, pushing up and down a barbell, push up and also sit up. The second type is activity or movement against other people such as wrestling and blocking on rugby.

The two movements cause stretching when the muscle fibres are forced to stretch and hold. The muscle action which is need for these activities are known as ”eccentric” action or negative action (the opposite is positive actiob or concentric action like taking or pulling)

Muscle Pain

Three explanations which explain about the muscle pain that occurred are lactic acid accumulation, muscle cramp, and muscle disrepair. But from all three, the broken muscles are most scientific reason.

The movement which caused pain will bring damage to certain area of the muscles, such as fiber membranes and contractile elements in muscles. Meanwhile, chemicals such as histamine are released from the damaged area and induced pain receptor in the muscle. At that time, you will feel the pain in your tired body.

Other mechanism, he damage in your muscle will cause inflamation from the muscle when this inflammation will cause an amount of pressure which can stimulate pain receptor. But sometimes, the inflammation on the muscles will appear after your pain in your muscles disappear, where thepain receptor can adapt with the inflammation.

However the mechanism is, the muscle damage is the biggest cause of your muscle pain.

What are The Solutions?

A few treatments are suggested to take care of the pain such as stretching, balm massaging, cream, gel, or othe medication, ice wrap, warm water soak, and also sauna. Do you think, which are the most effective?

The whole treatmen are giving you a pain relieving effect, but it is for temporary only and not one are really effective in the long term or can dissipate all your pain. The use of aspirin and anti-inflammation mediaction are believed to cure the muscle pain, but other scientific experiments from the mediaction effects are still unonvincing.

Because of that, there are no treatments which is considered as truly efective, then you should focus on minimalising and preventing the appearance of the muscle pain through an exercise programs which are designed for safety.

Yes, You Can Handle The Pain!

An athlete can feel pain and cramp on his muscles, and he cannot compete with his maximal ability. This is caused by the loss of energy caused by muscle damage.

A more structured exercise program is done step-by-step, where you can increase the intensity and the exercise duration in a few weeks. Your muscles a;so need to adapt to lift a weight. Do you see body builder in the gym? They have done a 5kg weight lifting like you are. The adaptation process will take long, but it is very effective to prevent or minimise pain, weakness and muscle injury.

In a structure exercising program, you should cut back on the unnecessary movements, expecially those involving eccentric movements on your muscle. If the eccentric action on your muscle cannot be ignored during trainings, then you need to give enough time for the muscles to rest and to recover during your exercise regime.