What can I do to relive sore muscles?

Question:

Last saturday morning I went to a wrestling clinic. My first practice is tommorow but my quads and my lower back upper glutes hurt, and it is mostly in my right leg. Is there a way to relive the sorness in my muscles without taking pills? And I was also wondering is they have stayed this sore for this many days, do you think that I might have bruised the muscle?

Answers:
Getting rid of soreness for me means stretching and using heat directly on the muscles. Stretching sore muscles is good because it allows fresh blood to flow into the muscles bringing them oxygen and other nutrients needed to recover. Heat is good because it relaxes your muscles and loosens them up.

When you first start an exercise program, for the first few weeks you will feel like you've been hit by a truck. You have damaged muscle fibers. But this is not really that bad of a thing because everything heals back stronger. So next time you do the activity, it won't hurt as bad.

After a while the muscles will have adapted to the activity so they won't hurt anymore.

To help with the pain, take an anti-inflamatory like Advil.

You stretch them and then put on some ice on them. 20minutes on and 20 minutes off.

I would use a icy hot patch or atomic balm and wrap the areas with saran wrap(to keep heat in) this is a wuick over night fix to really sore muscles. You probably haven't torn anything but just over exerted unused muscles. If you stretch is will more than likely make them worse ( stretching would have helped before activity.) Now rest and heat.

What can I do to relive sore muscles?

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