# Muscles are sore, why isn't my heart?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-are-sore-why-isnt-my-heart/162651>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 19, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-are-sore-why-isnt-my-heart/162651 "2003-03-19T22:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-are-sore-why-isnt-my-heart/162651/21 "2003-03-28T00:00:15Z")

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[Ways to minimize DOMS](http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=9703&sidebar=575&category=keep_fit)

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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-are-sore-why-isnt-my-heart/162651/22 "2003-03-28T02:39:45Z")

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Well, if you want to know what it feels like, do a lot of speed. After about 12 hours of hard dancing while tweaking out, you will be able to feel that your heart is tired out and sore… at least I always assumed that’s what that feeling was.

Good riddance to those days, man.

LC

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