Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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as a wise philosopher once said "No pain, no gain". I have done a very minor glute workout and the pain I am in is considerable even though I have done very little workout. It doesn't feel like anything more than general workout fatigue, but is this a good sign? Is the sign that I feel my muscles breaking down a good sign that they got a good workout or is this a sign to cool it, probably?
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You may need to elaborate a bit on what kind of pain you're feeling. Is it tenderness, muscle burn, shooting pain? Is it lingering or only when you repeat the action (i.e. sitting, squatting, walking up stairs).
Nah, it's the "wow that was a good workout, i sure did use that muscle a lot" pain. I can't use my glutes very effectively though and probably overdid it a bit
You probably know your body and its tolerances best, but a slight sourness of the muscles isn't an immediate red flag in my experience. Often it's not the day after, but two days after a strenuous workout that you may notice a deeper muscle pain. I'd hold off on doing further excersises until this subsides, especially because your muscles may not have the same tolerances while recovering (i.e. you won't be able to hold the same weight for the same length, and the risk of your legs giving way unexpectedly is heightened).
If you notice longer term muscle pain, of a similar intensity, magnesium supplements are clinically (afaik not medically) purported to help reduce this, and anecdotally have helped me. I would hold off on using topical creams (deepheat/tiger balm) as they can mask pain signals that you should be paying attention to.
This is pm the extent of the advice I received from my friend who studies sports science and physiology, so I'll tap out here. Good onya for doing excercise!