DOMS

3 May 2020

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A short YouTube educational clip explaining DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness): the muscle soreness experienced a day or two after a hard workout caused by microscopic muscle fiber damage. The speaker explains that this damage is part of the repair-and-build process that leads to strength gains and that the soreness arises from chemicals that activate pain receptors during repair.

Questions this video answers

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.

The day or two after a hard workout.

Alright, guys, in this module we're going to be talking about doms, which I'm not sure if many of you would have heard about, but it is an acronym, so it stands for Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, which is the soreness you feel the day or two after a hard workout. So happens all the time for people that do weightlifting. This happens because when you're working out, you're damaging muscle fibers, which is actually a good thing. The muscle then repairs and rebuilds and that's how you get stronger as well. So the soreness and pain you feel from doms comes from the chemicals that set off pain receptors during the repair process. So not a bad thing. It's just. I'm just really annoying. I'll see you in the next video.