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Anonymous
The key is: don't take days off when you're starting.
Believe it or not, exercise will ease the soreness. To get really brutally sore, you need to exercise hard, and then rest for a whole day.
Once you're in better shape, you won't get sore like that anymore.
As I understand it, it's a matter of lymph. Lymph is the secondary circulatory system. It carries nutrients to and waste products from the areas that blood can't reach. But there is no "lymph heart"; lymph is only pumped around by moving your body (or getting a massage).
So after a hard workout, your muscles excrete a lot of waste products. If you sit around, they gather and cause discomfort. If you exercise more, the muscular contractions pump the lymph around, the waste products are removed, and you feel better.
Not sure if that's the whole truth, but it's at least part of it.
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