Sore muscles are a part of an active lifestyle! While uncomfortable, the good new is: a sore muscle means 
you are making a change in the shape of your body and the strength and speed of your muscle. The soreness is: Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness. Best remedy? Keep moving. Be sure to come to class day after day. Couple of thing to help ease the pain:
- Be sure to eat some high quality protein within 45 minutes of your workout or sooner. You have a small window in which this helps speed muscle repair.
- Continue to eat high quality protein throughout the day (see your logbook for examples), fruits, veg and other complex like oatmeal.
- If you can stand it, take 10-20 second bursts of alternating hot & cold showers…it really does help but can be pretty uncomfortable. Check out Contrast Showers.
- Take an Epsom salt bath…Grandma was right. It does help! While in the warm bath, stretch.
- Apply any brand of muscle cream to the area.
- Never a better excuse to get a massage.
- Try The Stick: www.thestick.com It is an awesome way to relieve muscle pain & soreness. It is called “floss for muscles.” It works really well and is a good investment (~$20) if you plan to be an active person.
- Keep coming to bootcamp or complete a Max Body-work assignment. Getting your muscles moving again is usually the BEST therapy.
- More info on DOMS.
- Any suggestions? Please post to comments or let us know what works best for you.
