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DOMS from hell! - whats your strategy?

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Aug 2011
9:47pm, 16 Aug 2011
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susietwoshoes
I always have a warm salt bath, now I'm sure if that really helps or if it just feels like at the time, and the discomfort just goes on its own.
Aug 2011
9:48pm, 16 Aug 2011
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plodding hippo
I Like hot bath too
Aug 2011
9:49pm, 16 Aug 2011
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Bez-head
Beer and a day off.

Who'd have thought.
Aug 2011
10:04pm, 16 Aug 2011
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Lyns
i'm not listening to the ice bath people (la la la can't hear you...)

and as most big hillwalks are around 3hr drive from home, i reckon i've definitely missed the window for ice baths by the time i'm home [hopes]
Aug 2011
10:06pm, 16 Aug 2011
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plodding hippo
Ice baths are EVIL!!
Aug 2011
10:08pm, 16 Aug 2011
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HappyG(rrr)
Train more? Or just expect it? I'm not being sarky. If you've been off running for a bit and you go back to a hard run, hard hill walk, long run, whatever, you're muscles aren't used to it and they will ache. 3 days and it will go away. After that, train 3 times a week and after first week, you'll rarely get DOMs again. It's just the ol' mantra of build it up slowly, and once you're there, you won't have a prob. Good luck with getting back to running. You've got at least 3 days to recover now though! :-)G
Aug 2011
10:11pm, 16 Aug 2011
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Anna Bomb
Wish my muscels would listen to that theory :-)G but unfortunately no matter how many marathons and hills I run I still end up crippled :-( Ibuprofen, warm baths and stretches are your friends
Aug 2011
10:13pm, 16 Aug 2011
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Lyns
hillwalking always gives me DOMS even when i'm very running fit, because i can't get up to the big hills any more than a couple of times a month usually (though planning every weekend for the next six weeks).

also, you never know for sure what a munro descent will be like till you get there - it's not just the steepness but the path (or lack of path) too... and paths that have been worked on are worst as the rock steps that people like JMT and NTS build are always bigger than my natural step height.
Aug 2011
10:24pm, 16 Aug 2011
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DeeGee
DOMS kicked in for me yesterday afternoon after my HM.

I cycled and ran it into submission today.

That policy's guaranteed to bite me in the bum one day...
Aug 2011
1:12pm, 25 Aug 2011
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the_dobster
I get DOMS on a regular basis as I do a brutal circuits class, which beasts every part of you. I swear by sleeping with my microwaveable wheat pack on the offending muscles. Its very rare that it doesn't sort the ache out completely by the next morning.

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