How to reduce muscle soreness

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Regular hard exercises or high intensity exercise programmes can cause muscle damage. However, you can reduce incidences of sore muscles, pain and injuries by including the following few tips in your training routine:

Always start with low intensity warm-up: Getting into any high intense exercise without warming up effectively can actually put your working muscles under duress and make you prone to injury. This is because the muscles are still cold and oxygen supply is not as effective compared to muscles warmed up properly.