Almost every time I exercise I seem to come away with aches and pains and what feels like strained/pulled muscles.
I'm not talking about DOMS that you get from weights, but the actual feeling that the muscle is pulled.
Eg. I'll go for a jog, if I haven't warmed up pre-light jog (and sometimes even if I have) I'll come back with sore/tight quads/hip flexors/groinal zone. They'll be like that for a few days. Even when I go running regularly I have the same problem so that I'm always running with a bit of background pain.
I warm up extensively at the wall, but nearly every session I'll come back and my sides, lower or upper back will ache and feel tight for a few days.
Sometimes I'll even pull a pec doing press ups, despite being able to do quite a lot of them. Doesn't seem to make sense.
Once I train as much as I want to/need to to get better, I'm basically always training through aches and pains, which worries me a bit as exercising with tight/strained muscles seems to me a good way to inhibit movement and end up with real problems.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm only in my late 20s, doesn't seem like the body should be done in just yet!
When I was younger I did quite a lot of quite heavy weight-lifting when training for martial arts and wonder if this has anything to do with it - also I've had a bad back in the past and think I still have a pretty suspect core, despite quite a lot of work trying to strengthen it.
Or do I have naturally/through not stretching enough very short muscles, so I've got to pay particular attention to lengthening them through stretching?
Is it likely I'm missing something in my diet that contributes to this?
I haven't seen a GP about this as it's not that big a deal, and I feel that I'd probably rightly get short shrift, but it doesn't seem right to be walking round with constant muscle aches when in the scheme of things I don't even do that much training.
Working at a desk defo seems to have exacerbated this.
Any thoughts/hints/suggestions from the cognoscenti?
Cheers.