Masters of Health Magazine February 2022 | Page 109

Summary

Muscle inflammation is a completely normal and natural phenomenon, of course, if it is now chronic. Moderate muscle pain is a sign that the body is waking up and that you are shifting your boundaries. If it never takes place, it can mean that your physical exercise is not very efficient.

People who train and never experience muscle inflammation do not cross their physical potentials and use exercise as a mode of psychological satisfaction rather than a way to develop their muscles, improve their health or reach a certain sports result.

Although it is proven that certain muscle growth can be reached without muscle inflammation, an athlete will need significantly more time in order to reach it.

In martial arts, a person who is inactive, i.e. someone who doesn't train and is not in shape – doesn't exist as an option.

An athlete who doesn't train is, simply, not an athlete. A martial arts master who constantly doesn't train can no longer be a master (he simply doesn't have the necessary skill any more).

This is why all martial arts trainees need to constantly train and should welcome muscle inflammation with a smile on their faces.

All the Best from Croatia.

Yours sincerely,

David “Sensei“ Stainko – Mag. of  kinesiology   

Master 8th Dan - Mixed Martial Sciences