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Newbies might be surprised at how quickly you can stop feeling DOMS when you start exercising.
Nothing quite compares to the post-workout pain when you start a new workout routine. You wince as you lift your leg a few inches to get up the stairs and groan as you reach up to grab a mug from the cabinet.
Obviously, it gets better – otherwise Emma Raducanu would be hobbling around the tennis court from her matches the day before. But do you need to be a pro before your body adapts to exercise, or does it happen faster than that?
Why do I get DOMS?
First up, why do you even get post-workout pain anyway? Known as DOMS, which stands for delayed onset muscle soreness, there’s actually no real evidence behind why we get it. The general understanding is that it’s down to inflammation, micro tears in the muscle and waste product building up around those recently worked muscles.
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