Battling Muscle Pain

It’s prettly simple, actually.

Repetitive Strain Injury, Neck Pain, Lower Back Pain—all the same.

But that’s not to say it’s easy.

For every Muscle Pain I’ve encountered so far, I’ve had to:

1. reduce strain
2. relax the muscle
3. strengthen the muscle (or its antagonist)

—so to make it more explicit:

Whenever you have any muscle ache from tension or whatever, the way to go is the following:

1. Find out what the straining activities are, and limit them
2. Find out what helps immediately, and do it (like blackrolling, stretching, taking a break)
3. Find out what helps mid- to longterm: This is almost all of the times some kind of training, maybe also fixing your posture through awareness (and training)

§ 1. Reducing Strain: Make out the stressors and battle them

§ 2. Relaxing the Muscle

For me, that normally amounts to:

• Blackrolling the muscle
• Tightening up its antagonist
• Adjusting my posture
• Stretching the muscle

§ 3. Strengthening the Muscle

Find exercises that are:

• easy to do correcly
• thoroughly check your posture
• ask training-people you know for advice