Exercise Every Day?

kiwikara
kiwikara Posts: 65 Member
edited September 30 in Fitness and Exercise
Is it healthy to exercise every day? Or should there be at least one day of complete rest?

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  • breskittle
    breskittle Posts: 75 Member
    I give myself 2 days each week...I notice if I over-work my body then my scale goes no where.
    Give your body a rest and it will have time to recover and you will drop faster. In my experience.
  • jbenton091011
    jbenton091011 Posts: 99
    You should have at least one day of complete rest. Your body and mind need it.
  • Nessiep
    Nessiep Posts: 171 Member
    defo time to rest ....iexercise on a tuesday,thurs an sun or if ihave time on a friday!
  • joehempel
    joehempel Posts: 1,543 Member
    Rest will help your body flush the water from the muscles. You will retain water due to the muscles using it for repair.

    You don't have to take a stay on the couch rest day, it can be active...walking/swimming whatever, just make it light and no where near your normal intensity during a workout.
  • clioandboy
    clioandboy Posts: 963 Member
    30 day shred has no rest days??????
  • JoceyyySmall
    JoceyyySmall Posts: 155 Member
    I rest one day a week (on saturdays). Those this week I might trade in sunday for saturday. But anyway it's always nice to have a day off to recover and let your muscles and body heal. This recovery time is important because you're breaking down muscle continuously you need to let them heal so you can actually build the muscle.
  • TheMrsBee
    TheMrsBee Posts: 226 Member
    have a rest day unless your doing a challenge! It's hard but the results will start to show. Good Luck
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Once you get to a reasonable level of fitness, you can incorporate active rest on your rest days. For me, workout days include hard running, circuit training or spinning. On my active rest days I do swimming or fast walking. I hate not being active!
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Once you get to a reasonable level of fitness, you can incorporate active rest on your rest days. For me, workout days include hard running, circuit training or spinning. On my active rest days I do swimming or fast walking. I hate not being active!

    I'm the same way. On my rest days, I do PiYo which is a fusion of pilates and yoga. It's not nearly as strenuous as my other workouts, but it doesn't allow me to sit on my rump either.

    However, I do feel that rest days are extremely beneficial and I have at least 1, sometimes 2, rest days a week.
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