5 Ways To Deal With Muscle Soreness Without Medication

Sure, ibuprofen is the easiest and quickest way to get rid of muscle soreness. Good option for a placebo. My mother used to tell me to take aspirin. Another good one.

Muscle soreness can kick in anytime within 72 hours from your training session. Some experts say 24-48 others go to 72.

Nowadays when I get DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness), because I do, rarely but it happens I allow my body to heal itself and if needed help it this way:

1. Hot bath to relax those muscles and improve circulation.

2. Stretching, particularly after your workout, to release the tension. Make it gentle the next day.

3. Keep training. If you stop for a week just because your muscles hurt, when you go back they will hurt again. Keep training, maybe not as hard but keep moving. Besides when muscles warm up they don’t hurt….as much.

Remember that muscle soreness is a type of muscle conditioning, which means your muscles are adapting to the new activity. That’s all.

4. Massage to loosen up muscles and improve circulation to the area.

5. Hot/Cold. Apply some Apply an ice pack for 15 minutes, followed by a heat pack for another 15, and repeat. Promoting both circulation and muscle recuperation. I haven’t tried this one on myself.

BONUS 6th: Earthing

Scientific research has shown that connecting with the earth barefoot, especially when humid or wet, reduces inflammation in the body and improves circulation. So away you go barefoot outside.

This being said I do not agree with muscles soreness that lasts for day and you cannot get out of bed. That’s just wrong.

If you are a beginner at a certain type of exercise do not push over your limits. You can do that later when your body becomes accustomed to the exercise.

Many of my clients are beginners, some of them haven’t exercised in years. When they come they want a really tough workout from the first session.

However I do it my way, the first 3-4 session are within their comfort zone or just a little bit outside it. They may get some muscle soreness but not to make them hate just thinking about our next session.

So how do you treat muscle soreness? Leave your comments below.

How I discovered Earthing

A few weeks ago I was asked this question, how I discovered Earthing. So I decided to write a short blog about it. The fact is I didn’t discover it, it was there all the time, I just didn’t know the science behind it.

To try and answer and need to go back in time in my childhood.

I lived in a capital city with my parents in a flat in the middle of the city. Concrete and dust was (and still is) everywhere. Until the age of 15 or so, I used to spend my school summer holiday, 3 months, in the countryside with my grandparents. I also used to go fishing with my father. And play with my friends at my grandparents’ house at the outskirts of the capital city I was living in.

Every time I went to the countryside, fishing or playing with my friends my mother used to send me out barefoot. Actually naked until I reached the age where I became aware of my nakedness :)).

In high school things changed. I was growing up and I stopped going visiting my grandparents as often. I was spending time with my friends in the city, in clubs and pubs.

Long story short. I went back to connecting with the Earth when I went into my worse wave of depression ever (I suffered from depression ever since I was a child). What triggered me to think of going outdoors I do not remember but I remember instant relief. As if a stone I was carrying for many years came off my shoulders. I was able to breathe, to explore and had room to move.

When I moved to London I began training with Michael Cohen coach at Wild Forest Gym where I still train today, 2 years later. Michael trains us for Obstacle Racing, we don’t talk much about Earthing but I began digging into the topic myself.

Then I began talking and writing about the concept of Earthing so friends were sending me articles they would bump into online.

I began to be more and more fascinated about the idea and I started reading more about the scientific research. I am not a tree hugger….not yet at least, ha ha.

I found out that scientists have discovered a connection between connecting with the Earth and reducing inflammation in the body which is responsible for many – if not most – diseases we suffer from. Earthing helps muscle recovery and reduces muscle soreness. It heals wounds and improves blood circulation. It also shows big improvement in people who are stressed, suffer from depression, insomnia, anxiety and other illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases.

This is the reason I am so fascinated about this topic. The cure is literally underneath our feet but we are too busy looking at the top shelf in the local pharmacy for chemical treatments.

At this point in time we cannot just replace professional medical treatment with Earthing. Our bodies will need time to adapt and react so please do not replace professional medical treatment.

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