Muscle Fatigue - What is it?
Muscle fatigue is quite an agonizing experience. You feel tired and uncomfortable and it drains your day. It robs you of the daily tasks which you would otherwise carried out. How many times have you laid on the couch and watched TV all day - thus missing your routine gym workout or the project you were working on? So what is muscle fatigue and how can you combat it?
Muscle fatigue is basically tiring of the muscles where you will find it difficult to lift or move things which you can do easily before. Muscle fatigue is caused by two things.
1. Your nerves cannot put out a sustained signal to control the muscles. The brain send a signal to the muscle cells to contract.
2. The ability of calcium is reduced. Calcium is used to stimulate contraction of the muscles.
These are the scientific reasons. Tranlsated to plain easy to understand English, muscle fatigue is either caused by vigorous exercise which is common or by other abnormal reasons.
If you have never lifted weights before and you suddenly do it strenuously for half an hour, I can guarantee you will experience muscle fatigue. Continuing the exercise will cause your muscles to hurt and you have to stop. The reason is, your muscle tissues are damaged. You need one or two days rest to recover from your damaged muscles.
Lifting weights or any exercise which will put on muscles is a great help in reducing muscle fatigue. Since your muscles can take the strain more.
A good way to put on muscles is to exercise vigorously until your muscles are sore and then relax a bit until your damaged muscles are repaired. Then exercise gently until the soreness is non-existent before continuing with the hard exercise. This is how atheletes train.
An expert will continue to exercise when their muscles are sore which will harden the muscles. The muscles will be less likely to be injured and can deal with greater stress when training hard again.