Do you know that feeling called muscle soreness?
Me? Well, I am way too familiar with this feeling that I started to hate myself, JK
Basically, if you haven’t done any workout, or hard physical activity for a while, then you do a hard workout all of the sudden, you would feel this weird uncomfortable sensation all over you body
This happen, according to my understanding at least, because our muscle teared apart when doing physical workout
Don’t worry, don’t worry, that’s normal… well, it’s completely normal
You can learn more about how muscles got bigger in this vid
TL;DR when you step up your exercise game, or just starting to do workout for that matter. Your muscle (That haven’t got used to this new level of exercise) will teared apart because of the stress you put into your muscle
Then, to compensate with that, your muscle will fix itself, with an added bonus of preparing itself for this level of workout next time
So, to get a bigger muscle, you need to break your muscle… to an extent, with a lot more factors to consider, for example protein consumption and sleep
I am familiar with this feeling ever since 5th grade. That time, I was rarely playing football with my local friends
But when I did, I often got muscle soreness. I didn’t know what it was called at the time, my father thought it was rematik (Rheumatism)
Until recently, probably in last year, in senior highschool, not sure when. I heard about muscle soreness on YouTube (I watch mostly English content) then I googled it, and realize it was a similar feeling that I felt
Now I know what it is, I can started to get around it, and fix it, and avoid it in the future
Which lead to our main story… damn that was a really long intro. What’s up with shorter writing format, me?
As I mention in an 8 hours a day sleeping plan. I just got muscle soreness, since two days ago
So, yesterday I have a gymnastic test on my PE classes, I and my group (Gebuh + Bayu) create the gymnastic rhythm at Wednesday evening
Being a high school student that we are, we got sidetracked a lot. Two of which are: Fantasying being hero, and did gym
I would put the fault on Anjay, he is like the muscle lover in our group. When he saw the gym equipment Arya have in his house, he immediately use it
Then skip skip skip, we did some workout, like running, pulling some elastic things, idk what others are called
Then, I got a notification from my Google Calendar reminding me about Planking (The reminder is at 7.30PM,
That’s when I did planking, and we challenge each other to do planking, and then ended up with push up
Anjay taught me how to do a push up properly
Well, I did the usual push up nicely (He surprised with that), but then he taught me the other two variation of it
One with chair, and one more with chair but hand on the lower… idk how to describe it
That’s maybe the reason I got muscle soreness
We also diamond push up, I can’t do diamond push up… I did 9 consecutive normal push ups btw
With added some weird movement we got for gymnastic. I basically forced to use muscle that I rarely use
The thing is, I worked out pretty regularly (Until last month, fu exam and to college stuff). But most of my workout focus on my legs and bicep
So, I got a nice bicep… that helped me do more push up than what I normally can do… the problem is, my muscle distribution is bad
I put too much stress on my untrained triceps because my bicep is relatively too strong
And that my friend, is why you need a professional trainer to guide you doing work out. Me!
So, yeah… after we finish the preparing, we went for dinner, went home. I wrote my waking up schedule and sleep
That’s when the thing I briefly describe here happen… lemme quote it here
… I just write about my messed up waking up schedule yesterday. And last night, I can’t even sleep comfortably because I got muscle soreness
I sleep around 1AM, maybe, then woke up again at 3AM (Because of the muscle soreness in my bicep and tricep), then proceed to sleep again and wake up again at 4:50AM for PE Class
My class got a rhythmic gymnastic test this morning, so I forced myself so hard this morning even though my sleep was bad, and my body (And mind) need time to relax …
The thing that I didn’t say is, that awaken at 3AM is killing me
Both of my arms felt so weird, it wasn’t painful, but it was painfully uncomfortable
That uncomfortableness is the reason I got awakened. So you know how bad it was
I was so confused, why my arm felt so weird… I wasn’t sure at the time
But I need to get to sleep more, I have PE class later that day. I tried forcing myself to sleep, but I just can’t, my arm was killing me
I tried to angle my arms, weighted it, sleep over it… I even tie my arm with my belt and senteng
Basically I want to replace that uncomfortableness with the feeling of painfulness. Idk, I just feel can handle pain better
And I don’t remember why, but I felt asleep… that tie-ing my arm plan was a failure btw
So yeah, next thing I remember I woke up, went to PE class, forced myself to do the gymnastic movement, a lot of times (We need to practice, again, and again)
Then I went home from PE class (To prepare for school later that afternoon), but after resting myself (And watch YouTube), I just like… can’t really move
Well, I can of course, but I just don’t wanna… So I skipped school
So yeah, distribute your workout evenly~
This is the first post I manage with my Trello btw
And no, I don’t blame Anjay for this, but myself
And it was worth it, probably
And this is 12:26 AM already, I need to watch my clock more closely next time, bye~
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