What can I do about the soreness I have after working out on tuesday.?
542407
Forget about potasium and lactic acid ... lactic acid has nothing to do with DMOS (delayed onset muscle soreness).  \n\nIf you want to get rid of the soreness, try taking alternating hot and cold showers.  Take a cold shower for one minute (as cold as you can stand) and then switch to a hot shower for 3 minutes.  Repeat three times.  This will help flush out the cellular waste products that cause DMOS.  Good luck.
1171421
You need to drink lots of water. If you are that sore, then you must be sweating it out by the buckets! Also, plain water is not the best. Drink something that balances your electrolyets, like Gatorade or some similar product. If you don't want to go broke buying Gatorade, make your own. Just mix Kool-Aid or whatever brand you prefer (non-sweetened) with 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp salt. This replaces what your body loses during the workout. I would recommend drinking 1 liter of water for every hour you are working out, and following up with one liter of Gatorade and continued water until bed. Also, keep water by your bedside and drink it regularly when you wake up at night (to turn over or to get up and go to the bathroom). Doing these things will prevent your body from getting too dehydrated from the work out and will rebalance your electrolytes. Also, do not strenuously work out the same muscle groups 2 days in a row. This does more harm than good as the muscle does not have time to repair and grow between workouts. DO however stretch the muscles thoroughly and make sure that you do not "nurse" them the next day. Stretching a couple times throught the day, combined with your normal activity, will help to release the lactic acid from the muscles as quickly as possible. The less you drink and the more you "nurse" the muscle, the longer you will be sore. Finally, eat banans and raisins as your snacks. These are high potassium fruits and will help to prevent muscle cramps, especially at night. I learned all these things the hard way when I began working out. I hope what I have learned helps you!
640870
Sore muscles are caused by lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles naturally, and causes the burn you often feel when lifting weights or are exhausted from a soccer match. When you warm up your muscles, the increased blood flow can remove some of the lactic acid, and make your muscles feel better. To further get rid of lactic acid, try stretching, eating bananas, or drinking tonic water (gin optional). \n(the quinine in tonic water breaks down lactic acid)
794918
Depends on diet and rest. Drink lots of water, avoid carbonated/diuretic drinks, and even though it's painful, stretch as much as possible. Also, be sure to get a good night's sleep! After three days, even if it still aches, still run again! Take an aspirin before hand, stretch, and warm-up your muscles before doing so. After 10 minutes you won't feel it and you will maintain a certain pace for your body to remember ensuring a quicker recovery time. Keep it up! After your first week you won't hurt anymore.
384839
I've gotten those, too. The best thing to do is wear a shirt with a softer seam or try a tank top. They won't go away completely until you stop working out in those shirts with rough seams that rub your skin.
3662
Start with your wrists for the kind of working out you are talking about...oh and might I  suggest a good anitbacterial soap for clean up after...oh and do not forget the lotion LOL
301355
It is ok to still workout, just watch your form. If you are still hurting, your form may suffer, and that may cause real injury that wont go away after a couple days. You will just have to really focus on your form. Good luck
60124
Wait a day or so, and if you're still uncomfortable, then contact a doctor or a clinic. You could also go to the library and read a medical book...they usually have chapters on sorenesses, etc. caused by sex.\n\nhope you feel better.
1109599
stretch before and after, this will prevent the damage..\n\nas for repair drink lots of water and take it easy. take some motrin or advil if the pain is really bugging you.\n\nyou shouldn't be hurting yourself when lifting weights. this isn't a good habit to get into because it will just lead to problems..
894993
You can lift weights all day if you want, even if you are sore.  The soreness is due to stretching of the epimyceum, the connective tissue surrounding your muscles.  It is stretched because when your muscle contracts, it increases the overall diameter via isoosmotic fluid.  The more resistance, the thicker it gets.  Since your muscles aren't used to this increase in size, it stretches the epimyceum.  The epimyceum contains the pain fibers, not the muscle itself.\n\nBTW Soreness is NOT caused by the so called lactic acid burn.
415920
wow!! don't listen to that guy that answered before me.  First of all you don't get sore from working out if you don't stretch. Stretching has nothing to do with it!!  The reason you are sore is because when you do excersises you are "tearing" the muscles.  That is what makes them sore!  But its good for them to tear, that is what you want to happen.  The reason is that when your body repairs those torn muscle fibers they repair them even stronger than before.  Thats why people get stronger when they lift weights and exercise. The more you tear them the stronger you will be.  \nAnd yes the harder you workout the sorer you will be but thats not necessarily a bad thing.  Its good if thats all your doing is "tearing" the muscles.  Now if you pull something on the other hand then that is bad.  But from your question I don't think thats what happened.  \nAnd yes its fine to workout 2 days after your last one.  Its best to leave at least a day of rest before you work that same muscle group again so that it will have time to repair completely.  Actually today just work out a different set of muscles and then go back to your back tomorrow or the next day.  \nYou should stretch but thats just to get your muscles warmed up so that when you put strain on them you won't seriously injure anything!\nAlso if your a beginner and thats why you have a trainer then I would recommend getting a book instead.  You will learn more and its way cheaper. If you are a male then I would recommend buying a book put out by Men's Health. They have a really good one called the "hard-body plan".  Its worth it.  Buy it at amazon and get it used for cheap!
971351
dude, i'm happy to help, but you have to take your picture off your little square. seriously.\nanyways, this is normal, your muscles are getting used to the stress you've put on them. you will probablly feel sore if you go really hard one day, but if you continue to work out everyday, it is normal, and GOOD not to feel sore after every workout.\nkeep it up!
845437
If its still sore on monday you should get it looked at by a doctor.  If it gets very bad in the meantime then I think you'll be taking a trip to the hospital...;
1010198
Soreness is to be expected.  If you continue to work out your body will get used to it and you will only be sore and or tired for maybe 30 min. or less after your workout.  I work out a lot myself and have experienced that many times when I have stopped working out and then started again.  Happy to help.
1125497
If your musles ache the next day your doing it right, but do it everyother day.- because muscle need to rest 24 hours after a good work out. Don't for get to eat protein and muscles eat up fat so you need a little body fat to make muscle.
982942
there are 2 types of working out.  cardio, and lifting weights.  if you do cardio, running joging.  machines. yoga (hehe) it works your heart and builds up stamana.  this does not do much to your muscles.  when you lift weights, it actually tares the muscle from your bone, this is what makes you feel sore. cardio does not rip much muscle from ur bone, so you feel tired, not sore.   cardio is more important for a health lifestyle. however its better to have a good balance.  if you are lifting weights and are not sore.  then simply use more weight and push yourself harder having more weight.  less weight with more reps (try using just more reps at a time) will give you more stamina, while less reps and a much higher weights will build your explosive brute strength.\n\nalso keep in mind. less weight more reps gives you more tone.  and definatly do this... get ancle and wrist weights while working out. it ads to your resistance which will cause you to be sore.  \n\nif you are working hard with cardio, and arnt sore. then ur in darn good shape. quit comlaining.  i have more strech marks than i have cash in my wallett. \nim a guy using his fiance's yahoo\n\nadam is incorect. your body does not need to be tricked... your body gets used to the work out levl because your body get stronger,  increase the weight, run faster.  your body will continue to get stronger.
545438
your muscles get sore because of the build up of lactic acid in the muscle fibers.\n\nwhen you use your muscles to perform activities such as playing basketball, the fibers perform anaerobic respiration, which is a form of respiration which uses no oxygen. the product of this kind of "energy usage" is lactic acid.\n\nthe best way to rid of the pain is to rest your muscles to let the muscles dump the lactic acid build up. try applying a liniment containing menthol on the area that hurts to help soothe the pain. \n\nif after a few weeks, and the pain is still there, and there is excessive swelling, go to a specialist immediately. you might be looking on something worse, like a ripped muscle fiber.\n\nto avoid excessive muscle strain and pains like this, try stretching first before performing any strainous activity like basketball.