Massaging sore muscles

[War Against Betaism]

A day after you work out a certain muscle it gets really really sore. Unconsciously throughout different parts of the day I softly massage it. Though later on that same muscle gets twice as sore than it was, which causes me to massage it even more, but it's a chronic problem every time I massage it. It's the worst when it's your leg muscles because it makes you walk all retarded.

Now I was wondering, is it healthy for me to keep massaging sore muscles? I mean, sure the muscles contract even harder and it hurts even more, but I kind of theorized that maybe it'll help my muscles grow.

 

[MrS]

Massaging will lessen the soreness, it get sblood flowing to the muscle which repairs.

 

[War Against Betaism]

Massaging it does lessen the soreness, but then five minutes later my muscles contract even more. It seems like when I try to talk about this to other people they don't have the same problem.