Does anybody know any methods of minimising delayed onset muscle soreness other than foam rolling? I foam roll on leg days now but I'm wondering if there's more I can do?
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I usually do the opposite exercise of what you think will cause the soreness - like if you are doing weights, do light cardio.
#notscientific though
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There's no 1:1 reliationship between muscle soreness and muscle growth.. irrespective, light cardio been shown not to bring many health benefits; it's the high intensity (interval) training (or HIIT) that's does so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training …
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I don't think was the question, but ok
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I was more suggesting that you might be just wasting your time doing light cardio :)
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got it - but if it's after an intense workout, it's more of a cool down, which is more what I was getting at. I wasn't suggesting it as a workout on its own.
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I mean long cardio does burn more calories though.
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It does, but to Paul's point, the studies on HIIT suggest more overall benefit than the usual cardio workout, possible the continued burn after the workout.
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From what I know we agree with Olivia on the superiority of health benefits of HIIT > cardio :)
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Mmm you wanna reduce muscle soreness for pain reasons alone?
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Best way not to get muscle soreness is to exercise (a given muscle group) often, i.e., around every 2-3 days (which is hard to maintain).
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That makes sense. So leg day, twice a week at least?
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The answers should be "yes" but that is ofc hard to maintain esp if u wanna exercise other muscle groups. I try to cycle where/when I can. If not possible then spin x HIIT as 1of2 a week? Takes 5-7 mins but gets job done..?
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