Brian Westgate’s Journey

If you had a great workout you know the next day or even that day because your muscels get extremly sore.  Many people take ibuprofin to take away some of this soreness.  Studies have now shown that taking ibuprofin after a workout, or to take away typical workout pain will actually half you muscle gains.  Very significant!  So the take home message when building muscle is to avoid ibuprofin for typical weightlifting pain.  This doesn’t mean you cannot use it for fevers, and other strains that are not "good pain".  But instead of taking ibuprofin learn to enjoy the pain.  The pain shows you did well and if you flex the muscles that are sore and feel that pain you can actually shoot a few endorphind into the sytem making you feel good - a job well done.  SO suck it up and live with the pain rather than relying on drugs to take the pain and the muscle away.