Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
Don't equate delayed muscle soreness with inflammation intrinsic to the process of adaptation. No one even knows what causes soreness.
Eh? I think we're discussing muscle soreness resulting from exercise.
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blo...ter-a-workout/
Muscle soreness occurs because muscle and the connective tissue around it get damaged during exercise," explains Dr. Hedt. "This is completely normal and nothing to worry about, though. In fact, it's needed for muscle growth, since muscle is built back stronger during this repair process.
I ride with a physiologist who researched this sort of thing, using dogs (and he loves dogs, but it is what it is). He told me that lactate has nothing to do with anything, pain-wise. One gets the lactate burn, but it's not the lactate that's causing the burn, it's another chemical. Which in any case has nothing to do with our subject, muscle soreness, which as explained in the link, is caused by damage, nothing to do with what we feel during exercise, just DOMS.