Movement Assignment

Movement Assignment Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name Instructor Name Due Date Movement Assignment Soreness After Workout Working out involves muscle movement. Muscle aching or stiffening is common, affecting people of all fitness levels after a workout. With workout activities, you may experience acute muscle soreness during a workout or delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), which usually starts within a day after a workout. Sara, what you are experiencing is DOMS, typically a physiological response as a result of intense or unfamiliar workout activity. Delayed-onset muscle soreness results from microscopic damage to your muscle fibers during the workout (Warneke et al., 2023). The damage leads to small tears in the muscle fibers, inflammation around the muscle tissue, and increased immune response, which causes the stiff-sore feeling. When you worked out with Tommy, you either engaged in exercises you were not used to or pushed harder than usual, hence your muscle fibers developing tiny tears at the cellular level. The micro-tearing triggers the immune response, which is felt as an inflammation as the body starts repairing the damaged areas. The pain you feel is from t...