Ilchi Lee, Burning Questions

Why you feel muscle pain and what to do about it..

If you are like most people, you have probably started and stopped dozens of exercise routines. You begin full of enthusiasm, but somehow that initial mindset always fades away. You skip a day here or there, then a week, and soon you have returned to your sedentary lifestyle. Do you lack discipline? Most likely, muscle pain is the culprit.

Even if you have led a relatively inactive life, you have probably experienced muscle pain—a simple session of gardening or housecleaning can leave muscles achy and stiff. If we use muscles we are unaccustomed to using, they may feel sore for many days after the initial exercise; this makes further exercise more difficult and discouraging and erodes our best intentions.

Sources of muscle pain include lactic acid buildup, Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and Ki imbalances. Fortunately, practitioners can easily learn several ways to reduce muscle pain and manage it on both physical and energetic levels.

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