{"id":22766,"date":"2020-09-28T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opt.net.au\/?p=19441"},"modified":"2023-12-19T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:43:44","slug":"delayed-onset-muscle-soreness-doms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/optimum-life\/delayed-onset-muscle-soreness-doms\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness \u2013 What is DOMS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
What is delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS? This is something I often have to explain to clients during their first few sessions as it can be a very normal part of starting a structured exercise program. DOMS is the muscle pain associated after exercising, usually between 24-72 hours post exercise. It is the result of micro-tears within the muscles, usually from performing strenuous activity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Whether you are starting a new exercise program or have been exercising regularly for a while, a few reasons you can experience DOMS are:<\/p> DOMS is a normal part of building strength and increasing lean mass and causes micro-tears within the muscles which then causes them to rebuild and remodel during recovery periods. This allows you to become stronger over time. It isn\u2019t necessary to feel sore after every workout or training session, you can still have a good workout without being sore.<\/p> Some of the things you can do to reduce the impact of DOMS are:<\/p> Speak to your exercise physiologist about an appropriate training program or if you have more questions about DOMS.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS? This is something I often have to explain to clients during their first few sessions as it can be a very normal part of starting a structured exercise program. DOMS is the muscle pain associated after exercising, usually between 24-72 hours post exercise. It is the result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[1173,1174,1175],"studio_location":[],"service":[700],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33000,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions\/33000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"studio_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/studio_location?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opt.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service?post=22766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}reasons you can experience DOMS <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
reduce the impact of DOMS<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t