Those flu-like symptoms after exercise aren’t all in your head.
Here’s what science has to say.
That bittersweet hurts-like-hell experience is called delayed onset muscle soreness, or DOMS for short.
It’s like your body is poisoning itself to punish you for putting it through such a tough workout.
But is that arealthing?
Can youreallybe so sore that you have flu-like symptoms after exercise?
(Here are just a few benefits of recovery, plus how to make the most of it.)