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SOME exercise folklore, such as the runner’s high, is eventually proved. But far more common are the persistent myths, including the following.
If you’re not sore the day after a workout, you didn’t push yourself hard enough.
Not true, said James Pivarnik, a kinesiology and epidemiology professor at Michigan State University. “Soreness usually comes when you’ve laid off for a while, or you’re trying something different,” he said. Consider this: Only a week after finishing a long-distance triathlon quite comfortably, Dr. Pivarnik, then a postdoctorate fellow, played a round of golf. “The next day I was dying,” he said. “I was more sore after hitting the golf balls than after any training sessions or the race.”
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/he...ssandnutrition
If you’re not sore the day after a workout, you didn’t push yourself hard enough.
Not true, said James Pivarnik, a kinesiology and epidemiology professor at Michigan State University. “Soreness usually comes when you’ve laid off for a while, or you’re trying something different,” he said. Consider this: Only a week after finishing a long-distance triathlon quite comfortably, Dr. Pivarnik, then a postdoctorate fellow, played a round of golf. “The next day I was dying,” he said. “I was more sore after hitting the golf balls than after any training sessions or the race.”
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/he...ssandnutrition