Joanne Smith explains typical muscle soreness peaks 1-2 days after exercise and fades within days. But some people develop atypical symptoms that spike dramatically and linger for weeks or months, signaling something beyond normal fatigue.
Right, anyway, going back to those that don't have challenges of chronic pain or anything, then you kind of go to the gym, you do a workout, you expect to hurt, like, you know, in the few days after the event, like whatever you've done. That's natural. That's what we call natural muscle fatigue. It's a natural experience. And it— for some people, it's like the day after, the day after. For me, my call it DOMS, delayed onset muscle syndrome. That always came in like day, day 1 or 2 after the event. And then it naturally just settles down over the few days. So it, it's like what we'd expect, natural muscle fatigue. It hurts, it's sore, and then it improves by the minute really. As time goes on, it improves. Whereas Where what I'm describing, some of these symptoms that people experience following upping, getting out, doing more exercise, do not behave in that natural way that we would expect that a natural physical muscle fatigue would behave. So they'll go really, really, really high, but yet they may continue for days and days and days and days and maybe weeks, maybe months. Hopefully not. However, there's a big difference in how those symptoms are behaving compared to what naturally you would expect from a physical cause.
