OQM #8: Why you get sore and what to do when you're sore
The Dr. Shannon Show
Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
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🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fit Body Hatby Joint. My name is Shannon and today's one question Monday where myself, Shannon and Dr. Payton physical therapist and teacher Evelo, just quickly go over one of your questions. |
| 0:16.0 | So welcome, Payton. |
| 0:17.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:18.6 | We're together in Austin today. |
| 0:19.6 | Yay! |
| 0:20.6 | The amount of work we get done when we're together is actually unreal. |
| 0:23.8 | It's so wonderful to actually physically be together. |
| 0:27.0 | It is makes a huge difference and we get we just have the best time. |
| 0:30.0 | So we're excited to be here. Today we're to talk about soreness and we'll talk about why you get sore. |
| 0:36.9 | What happens if you don't get sore and why we don't recommend measuring soreness as a barometer of your |
| 0:42.1 | workout and should you work out when you're sore? |
| 0:46.8 | What should you do when you're sore? |
| 0:48.7 | And what happens if you're always sore? |
| 0:50.8 | What could be going on there? |
| 0:52.1 | So let's dive in. Let's first talk about why you |
| 0:55.2 | got sort. |
| 0:56.2 | Do you want to take that one? Sure. So soreness a lot of times happens when you start a new type of program, it usually is a factor of a novelty of movement. |
| 1:07.6 | So you've started doing a new type of program or routine and your body or your muscles aren't |
| 1:12.2 | used to moving in that way or accepting that type of load and into the soreness will happen with that. |
| 1:18.0 | It can also happen as a result of intentional muscle damage that occurs within an exercise. |
| 1:24.4 | And there are some muscle contractions |
| 1:26.6 | that tend to lead towards more soreness than others. |
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