Long recovery time after excercise

I've been doing karate most of my life and other sports on a regular basis but in the last few years I haven't done as much excercise as I used to.

I have just started university and I joined the karate club. I wanted to train three times a week but am having difficulty managing one.
I find every two-hour session very tiring which is understandable because I am unfit but my problems start the day after the training.

When I get up the next morning, my muscles are stiff and I find it hard to lift myself out of bed. After a bid of walking, the stiffness tends to ease but when I sit down for a long period of time (like a lecture), I find it difficult to get up and walk around. Sometimes it hurts when I cough because the muscles in my stomach are so stiff. This carries on for about three days after I have the excercise.

This doesn't seem normal to me especially as im only 18 - I feel like an old man.

Am I overreacting or should I go to see a doctor?

Reply 1

Logan

that is completely normal. Its your muscles reacting to something that you dont do regularly. Muscle soreness usually happens the first few times you do an strenuous activity and it isnt used to it. Plus since you said you arent too fit, then that means your still building up that level of fitness where your body would be more efficient in carrying oxygen to your muscles and converting energy efficiently. From biology, once your muscles start to respire without oxygen (because it isnt getting enough) you start to deposit lactic acid around the muscles. These will be used up by your body for use of energy eventually and thus the pain/stiffness should go away. Its like i sat for the whole of summer then went paintballing for a whole day, the next 5 days i cant even walk :biggrin:

Also to add to that, you get muscle tearing which takes a few days for your body to recover from.

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