And it's one that I think most people are familiar with themselves , which is soreness . We think of it as a muscle soreness . But I was trained early on in my scientific career to always question the seemingly obvious .
First of all , what does soreness really reflect ? Is it really muscle soreness ? It feels like it's in the muscles .
Well , that actually should give you some clues into what's happening . So , the traditional dogma of delayed onset muscle soreness is what this is called is that it is a result of quote unquote micro tears in the muscle . And so you can sort of think I challenged the muscle .
If we are sore is something I know we'll get into a little bit later . And then why the delayed onset muscle soreness ? It's actually one question .
And then I'm particularly interested in this concept or this experience that many of us including myself had , which is delayed onset muscle soreness . Why would it be that when we are less in shape or when we perform a movement that is extremely novel to us , the soreness seems to arrive after a reasonable delay of maybe even a day , you know , we're fine the next day . But then 48 hours later , we are exceedingly sore .
