This article is about these hard workouts and the muscle pain that follows. In particular, I want to talk about how to prepare for a workout of this intensity and how to recover properly to adapt optimally. Muscle soreness after exercise is a common complaint in a sports chiropractor's office. What is it about a new exercise, lifting more weight, or a slightly longer workout that causes us to have such severe muscle pain? And why do they always seem to get worse on the secon