Do you feel a constant burning sensation during your workout? Lactic acid is the culprit. The negative impact is due to the sharp loss of ATP. Why does this happen? The content of the article:
- Negative impacts
- Why do athletes like pain
- Loss of phosphocreatine
Does a strong, unpleasant, overly intense burning sensation lead to the fact that you are constantly irritated, angry and nervous? Know that this is not the worst thing that can happen to your muscles after a workout. Perhaps one of the most unpleasant consequences is the appearance of lactic acid, or rather its excess in the body and muscles. On those parts of the body that conditionally succumbed to training yesterday, DOMS has a negative effect. Let's see why.
Negative impacts
Lactic acid has the following effects:
- Due to the presence of pain, athletes are forced to stop the training process. Exercises are difficult. Muscles refuse to obey you.
- Every movement is associated with pain. You will not be able to complete everything that is planned for the workout to the fullest. The intensity of workouts, classes decreases significantly, and it's hard not to notice. Stopping to rest, and then starting to approach after a short period of time, you get even more tired.
This happens because it becomes more and more difficult for the body to recover quickly. For normal, full recovery of the muscles, it will take at least a week.
Why do athletes like pain
As strange as it may sound, athletes are only happy when they fall into such a state. Muscle pain for them is a signal that the workout went "perfectly". Everything that was planned was completed, and perhaps even more.
This pain is called "pleasant" by all athletes and bodybuilders. And even if in the near future it will be difficult for them to move and perform at least some simple movements, but they did everything possible to increase the volume of their muscles.
Reinforced, one might say, hard workouts, which are mostly focused on power, on the highest number of repetitions is one thing, but everything changes in the event that you want to cause a burning sensation. And the most interesting thing is to keep it as long as possible.
To achieve this, you can even opt out of both weight gain and sets. Both in the first and in the second case, you will need the energy that is so necessary to continue training. And getting a burning sensation is your goal.
Loss of phosphocreatine
When you achieve a burning sensation, or as it is scientifically called muscular acidosis, the energy is suppressed, the process is stopped. This is due to the fact that the "fuel", which our body needs so much for the production of adenosine triphosphate, begins to be lost or stops altogether.
The "fuel" is phosphocreatine, which is produced from creatine stores. In simple terms, muscle burning should not be allowed. It is harmful to the body, as it reduces the reserves of creatine, without which our body cannot function normally.
Watch a video about the mechanisms of ATP in the body:
Therefore, it is not necessary to achieve a burning sensation in the muscles, it is not necessary to put a strong load on the body. All this can lead to very negative consequences and even health problems.
