The value of resting

earlnabby

I have always heard that a rest day is a good thing so I do try to fit one in each week (usually Sunday unless I am going hiking with my hiking club, then I pick another day). Last week (not the one that just ended, but a week ago) I ended up taking the entire week off for a family crisis and felt really bad about not even getting my steps in. I did make sure that I stayed within my calorie limit most of the days.

Fast forward to today. I had a great week. I improved my time in the pool (I swim a mile) and will end up way over my weekly average steps. To top it all off, I weighed in this morning and lost 2.4 lb! Haven't had a whoosh like that in a while. I guess it is true that sometimes you need to rest to let your body catch up, in all kinds of ways.

vorgas

Yup. The trick is to not let deload week turn into cheat week and deload month as well, lol