Since we're chatting about being sore a couple days after workout i'll add my two cents...
<!-- /jumpto --><!-- bodycontent -->Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), some refer to it as muscle fever, is the pain or stiffness felt in muscles several days after strenuous excercise. The soreness is felt most strongly 24 to 72 hours after the exercise. It is caused mostly by eccentric exercise.<SUP></SUP>After such exercise, the muscle adapts rapidly to prevent muscle damage, and thereby soreness begins....
As we all know DOMS is quite different from acute muscle soreness..Usually immediatly felt after excercise or later that same day....
The soreness is perceived as a dull, aching pain in the affected muscle, often combined with tenderness and stiffness. The pain is felt only when the muscle is stretched, contracted or put under pressure, not when it is at rest.<SUP></SUP>Although there is variance among exercises and individuals, the soreness usually increases in intensity in the first 24 hours after exercise, peaks from 24 to 72 hours, then subsides and disappears after about five to seven days after exercise.
The soreness is caused by eccentric exercise, that is, exercise consisting of eccentric (lengthening) contractions. Isometric (static) exercise causes much less soreness, and concentric(shortening) exercise typically causes none.
Often we hear about people saying they have a "build up of lactic acid" in their muscles. In my opinion this is actually false. Lactic acid does build up during working out however it disappears within hours of working the muscle....[/QUOTE]
Yea, once the pump is gone pretty much so is the lactic build up
