I talked about my legs being tired in yesterday’s blog.  This morning when I woke up, and got out of bed, my quads were genuinely sore and they felt tight.

In days gone by when I got very sore muscles, I used to just leave them alone and rest them.  These days however, I find that some proactive ‘maintenance’ helps me recover quicker.  Today, I did three things to try and help with the soreness, and as I write this late in the day, I can say that my quads feel much better.  Here is what I did.

Firstly, I did some gentle stretching.  I didn’t go all out with the quad stretches, because my muscles weren’t warmed up and also because the soreness indicated they were ‘damaged’.  I just wanted to relieve some of the tightness, I was feeling.

Secondly, I gently rolled the muscles for about ten minutes.  I used a hand held roller to apply the pressure, because I was able to be a little more gentle than foam rolling using my body weight.  I would start each session with almost no pressure, and gradually build it up until I was rolling quite hard.  I did this three times throughout the day

Finally, I really focused on posture while sitting at my computer for work, and took a lot of breaks to stand up and move around.  Sitting all day would probably have been the worst thing I could have done, so moving around a lot was important.

The big test will be tomorrow morning.  Hopefully, the soreness will be greatly diminished as a result of the ‘maintenance work’ that I did today.