Why being sore doesn't mean you're getting stronger.

Training with weights produces muscle soreness.

Many people don't like to be sore, and that's why they won't train for strength.

Running also makes you sore, but not as bad, and not all over the body, like weights do, so running is more popular.

Other people have noticed that riding a bike doesn't produce sore muscles,

so they ride a bike for exercise instead of lifting weights or running.

But to some people, and this may come as a surprise to most of you,

getting sore for some people becomes the whole point. And this may come as a surprise to most of you.

Getting sore for some people becomes the whole point of exercising.

They wear their soreness like a badge of honor.

In regard sore muscles is the price they must pay for continued self-improvement. Here are some facts.

Delayed onset muscle soreness, D-O-MS, as it is referred to, is a phenomenon associated with certain types of muscular work. It can occur as the result of exercise or manual labor, and is a perfectly natural consequence of unaccustomed physical exertion.

There are a couple of different theories about its actual cause at the cellular level, which are beyond the scope of this article.

Suffice it to say that D OMS has nothing to do

with lactic acid production during exercise, and that it is an inflammatory response to certain

types of muscular work, which therefore responds to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like

naprosin, ibuprofen, and aspirin.

Muscles are the contractual motors that operate the system of levers we call the skeleton.

Muscles work by generating tension or pulling force between their attachment points on the bones they operate.

They pull on these two points of attachment with varying degrees of force.

They generate this pull under three modes of operation.

First is concentric muscle contraction and it occurs when the muscle generates

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