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Is
anything worse for a guy who has dedicated a good part of his life to intense
physical activity? Yes, there is. And we’re not talking about not to do it
often or anymore, but the consequence after a long or short period without
activity – pains in muscles and joints. Depending on the type of training that
you have done, the annoyance uses to appear besides the neck, the shoulders,
the arms, almost all the back (especially the lower part), the upper side of
the gluteus (and its lower zone, eventually), the thighs, the knees, and the
calves (look at the figures).
It’s
true that the massages help, but if is the pain recurrent? Many followers told
us that they have started to feel back pain particularily, and all focused in
the lower part. That brought our attention, so in the process to research the background of physical activity, we found
in all cases that you did weights, aerobics, dance, and even football.
Every
person who asked us don’t meet each other nor live in the same location, but we
had the reference of the intense physical activity, so we asked what would
happen if they retake it. The ones who did it experienced a gradual remission
of the pain at the point to disappear. “It
pained even when I rested, but when I played football again, it was giving up,”
Franklin Juárez, 32, told us in Tambogrande, Peru, who contributed us to
illustrate this article too.
What
is the principle behind the relief? When we do intense physical activity in a
periodical term, we submit the body into a constant renovation of muscular
tissue, getting it ready for conditions of stronger moves than the simple walk
or shaking arms and legs. Then, we program our body to do that renovation in a
continous way due to every fiber suffers from a atrophy process or
modification, that makes the work we do much efficient.
If we
leave to do it, that atrophy reverses slowly because the muscular tissue is
elastic. And as we are not doing the voluntary process of pushing it and
pulling it yet, this ends to retract, sending a switch to the brain that is
interpreted as pain. Remember that the same happens when you build muscle – as
the fiber breaks up, it inflamates, and it uses the same alert system for
notifying that something is modifying inside there.
So
our choices are keeping stopped or keeping to move. If we decide the first one,
it’s probable the pains continue until the muscular atrophy reverses; if we go
for the second one, the muscular atrophy continues and the brain holds the
programming to have the body ready for the type of activity that we do.
And
what about the overweight that is experienced when you leave to do an intense
physical activity? Because of our body programs to assimilate more glucose,
which we use as energy for the muscular work, as we don’t use it anymore like a
kind of fuel, we trend to accumulate it as fat tissue. However, health
specialists who reviewed our report
denied a relation between pain and overweight.
Nevertheless,
many of you who retook the intense physical aactivity have reported that as you
lost weight, the pain resumed even to disappear. The specialists explained us
that sensation is rather because we have reactivated the atrophy process for
that we had programmed our body, as we told up before.
In
conclusion, if you did intense physical activity, you leave it suddenly for a
few or a long time, and the muscles start to pain, try to work out again like
before. And it’s probable that annoyance resumes. Don’t forget to ask your
doctor if this seems to involve other organs of your body, and never prescript
yourself. While we follow to report, share your experience on the comment box
right below or on our Twitter account.
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