Help ! I had tough bodybuilding weight lifting session and now my muscles hurt like hell. what should I do ?
541420
drink lots of fluids includin water...
622716
Well, I will actually try to answer you (as if you never thought of going to the doctor, oy).  I had the same thing for a long time, it was a taekwondo injury.  When I ran, it killed me for a couple of days (and this was *after* 3 months of physical therapy, which I'm convinced made it worse, and ice and heat and more ice and heat).  The thing that helped me most was honestly yoga.  I did it on and off for years before the injury and just picked it up again.  I have never felt better.  Deep tissue massage did nothing for me what lengthening and strengthening the muscle did.  Go easy at first, and if it feels okay, try a little more.  I can now run again (after about 4 years) with no repercussions at all.  I'm healed!  Good luck and feel better!
897734
Had to laugh at your expense, but I guess I owe you a serious answer.  One idea is that you could have overstreched your bum muscles (glutes) from lifting too many weights such as squats.  Did you help someone move recently and have to squat a lot?\n\nAnother idea is that you shoveled and twisted.  This is the kind of action like shoveling snow.  Lifting something heavy and twisting will hurt your bum/back muscles.\n\nI seriously had this pain while working in a foundry and went to massage therapist to get it worked out.  It still bothers me from time to time.  Go get it properly scanned if the pain continues.
360395
Try drinking something hot like tea or hot chocolate and TAKE A BATH!  This is my best advice.  Make the water as hot as you can stand and simply soak.  The heat will relax your muscles just like a heating pad would.  Do your best to relax, and get some ibuprofen in your system as soon as you can.\n\nHope this helps!  Good luck!
703221
Do you know what the cause of your back pain is? Sometimes if you lift something heavy improperly, it will hurt a few days later (not at the time of the incident). Or sometimes it is related to women's periods. It could also be your chest that is sore, but you feel it in your back. Find out the cause and then you can work on ways to make it feel better. Heating pads are nice if the muscle is spasming or tight. Ice pads are good for new injuries, but only for the first 24 hrs. And of course massages are great. If you have the money invest in a few massage sessions (assuming that the damage done to your back is minor). Massages are cheap too, only about 50 dollars for an hour. And it's worth it when you walk away feeling great! Of course Motrin will help with the swelling. But if you can't get the pain under control, see a physician for an examination, some X-Rays and some better pain medication such as Vicodin. Good luck!
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ok what are your fitness goals you mentioned bringing your weightlifting to an extreme and running.... for strength training you need low cardio heavy reps with low count on sets.  So your training the muscle to handle more weight.  Running on the other hand is higher intensity and you may loose some build.  The happy medium i recommend 3-4 sets of 10-12 reps.  Train one muscle group once a week, never train chest shoulders or triceps on the same day or day after.  These muscle groups are used together in almost all lifts so you'll tire really fast without a sucsessful workout.   Eat some lean protein meats tuna, egg whites, chicken breast... the best workout doesn't mean anything on a poor diet.  Try to get in 1-1.5g of protein per pound of bodyweight.  Cardio is either on your off days of lifting or after lifting NEVER run or do cardio before lifting unless its a short warmup.  Make sure you get your sleep because that is when you heal.  Use 3-4 different lifting techniques to train each muscle group.  Preacher Hammer curls are the prime bicep technique, one arm dumbell rows and shrugs are back's , french curls and overhead barbell extentions are tricep's, and squats and leg extentions are leg's, chest is dumbell fly's.  I always keep these lifts in my routine since they're prime muscle building techniques and throw in 2-3 others.  I can email you a complete workout sheet with lift tips and techniques I use if you like massure4hire@yahoo.com I keep it up to date on the PC.  Also keep a lifting journal so you can keep your progress and see where you need improvements.  I also log diet and suppliment info into mine.  Here is a free download to print the sheets http://www.trulyhuge.com/TrainingJournal.pdf and just put 3 holes in and put into a 3 ring binder.  Lastly you may want to look into a whey protein isolate a protein powder with amino acids and 0 carbs.  Take 30 min prior to lifting and again after lifting no later than 30 min after lifting and take with some carbs like rice or peanut butter into the blender with it.  Carbs are important in bodybuilding kind of like a shuttle to the muscle fibers for protein synthesis (healing the muscle) to take place.
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I have constant back pain after standing long periods of time or any kind of lifting. I use Icy Hot and that helps. Take a hot shower and then put some of that on that area that hurts. Take Advil good for inflammed muscles or a small dosage of a muscle relaxer. They have that new thing they show on tv that is like a wrap around band for your back that holds the disk that has the medicine in it. If it continues you may need to go to the doctor or a chiropractor. I went to a chiroprator one time and my back felt really good afterwards but you have to keep going back every so many weeks.
910474
You should take at least a 48 hour break between working the same muscle group(s) again. It could be longer, and all depends on how intensely you work them. If the muscles are still sore from your last workout, don't work them again. It is during this rest period that your body repairs and adds muscle.\n\nI've been doing a variation of Max-OT (link below). You work each muscle group once a week, and you work it hard. For example, Mondays are only legs, Tuesdays are only arms, Wednesdays are shoulders and traps, and so on. The workouts are very intense, and I'm usually sore for 3 to 4 days after each workout.
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Drink PLENTY of water.  Warm up before and stretch after.  It takes a while to get over a pulled muscle.  I pulled a quad one fall, would think it's OK and then re-aggravate it every time I'd start to run.
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Increase your carb and calorie intake, as well as your protein intake.  Eat 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight.  The extra calories you take in will aid in muscle recovery and give you the energy to get through grueling workouts.  If you want to look shredded and cut then watch your calories and carbs, but if you want to be strong and be able to throw around 100lb dumbels then follow my advice.
668188
do it very slow.. and stop if ur muscles pain cause it could cause damage too.
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Not sure exactly what, and there may well be a link: you might have strained a muscle: it's usu recommended you warm up before you start: stamina/endurance /general training.\nI'd assume your posture has something to do with it.\nRalgex-or something of that ilk-is pretty good in the meantime, plus plenty of rest.
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lol u hurted yourself\nit will heal but u may need to apply some sports cream or aching muscle cream/gel that you will be able to get from your chemist/drug store
132133
You need to talk to a personal trainer about your routine. There are terms we use called microcycles, macrocycles and periodization which are short-term and long-term variations in programs that work together to keep your fitness moving forward.  Each week's change in exercise focus gives the body a new stress to adapt to while providing a chance for the body to recover from the previous stress.\n\nHere's a sample:\nhttp://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Periodization.html\n\nJust as a side note, just because you don't feel delayed muscle soreness that doesn't mean you're not having an effective workout.  That's a misconception.\n\nIt's too lengthy to explain further for the purposes of this forum, but the concepts are readily available in several text books that focus on strength conditioning.
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It hurts because you did more than you usually do, or this is all new to you. It'll take some time for your body to get used to your workout. It'll work as long as you stick to it, and keep increasing as your body gets used to it.\nGood luck!!
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Just keep going.  Typically, the soreness is worse 2 days after you work out...not the very first day after.  The best way that I've found to relieve soreness is drink a TON of water, and work out again.  You are going to be very sore the first few times, its a given.  Your muscles are literally tearing and rebuilding themselves.  It's good though, dont get discouraged, it will get a little bit less painful every time.  Your doing good for your body.  Keep it up!!!
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That means you worked a little too hard.  You should be sore the next day and possible the one after that, but 3 days is too long.  Take it a little easy since youre just going back.  Also, make sure you stretch a lot because that helps with the soreness.  You should lift weight that you can do at least three sets of 8 with.  If you can't maintain that, go a little lower.  Once you get into it, you'll figure out what's a good treshhold for yourself.