It's local to the muscles you're working. It disappears when the exercise is done. It's associated with the tenderness you get a day or two after a vigorous workout, when muscles repair themselves. This is your body's way of telling you to stay away from another tough workout involving those muscles, until the soreness has gone. Light, limbering moves are fine, however, for warming sore muscles.
Bad pain is a completely different animal.
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