Feeling “beat up” is a sign of your muscles becoming slightly more acidic acutely following exercise, or days later you may be feeling the effects of delayed onset muscle soreness caused by sensitive muscle fiber endings. It can be attributed to a poor diet and poor sleep.
For starters, we are not all lovers of pain, so soft tissue manipulation on a foam roller or trigger point tool of some sort is not something we all religiously do as we should.
Soft Tissue Manipulation (STM), be it that you go to a fancy massage clinic, performed self massage, or self myofacial release(SMR) with a ball, roller, stick, etc. should be done constantly. There is always some area in your body that has recently been over-worked and is extra stiff or sensitive. It is necessary that we release those trigger points, whether they are latent or active, and obviously painful.
Short, simple, and straight to the point is effective and essential for taking care of sore muscles and ridding our body of hazardous trigger points and sore muscles that will ruin our body mechanics.
Playing with temperature can also be a highly effective tool for recovery. Ice application by itself for a couple minutes brings down pain levels, swelling, and stops the excessive nerve signals from the brain. Not only that, but applying ice for a few minutes causes the blood flow to slow down tremendously and then come back with oxygen and nutrient rich blood cells to help repair the torn tissue.
Recovery is MUCH More Than Skipping a Workout
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