Are you sore from training? Listen to mother and soak in Epsom salts.
For many years, whenever I was sore from working out or training hard, my mother told me to take a hot bath and add some Epsom salts. For over 40 years of not listening, I never used Epsom salts but one day recently, I gave them a try. I didn’t think I would get much from them but was I wrong. So much pain but so much relief… My hips and legs were extra sore from a hard Karate class the day before, and if you read my training blog at shotokanplanet.org you can see how I abuse my body in Karate class, so I turned on the hot water and poured about two cups of Epsom Salts in the tub. After just a few minutes of getting into the tub the pain in my hips and legs started to subside. It was almost like magic. I had soaked in …