Rest day... How much important??

vingang
vingang Posts: 4
in Fitness and Exercise
its been 2 months i am on ths workout... gym 3 times a week and cardio every day (morning + Evening) i m good so far... when i think of taking rest, i fear of breaking good goin workout schedule...

My question is, how much important is it to have full rest day (morning + evening) ??

Should it be once a week, or a month or its okay to go on w/o rest??

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  • Liz_Mfp
    Liz_Mfp Posts: 172 Member
    Twice a week is my vote.
    :-)
  • Viva81Diva
    Viva81Diva Posts: 148
    Have you ONLY been working out for 2 months? Muscles need rest. All of them! Your heart is a muscle too, so it needs rest too! You can get a great workout in less time rather than focusing on every day. You can do combination exercises that work two or more muscle groups at a time and cut your time in half. You can do fusion workouts that combine many types of exercises (strength/cardio/martial arts/pilates/yoga/etc.) and get a awesome workout just 4 days a week!

    Rest is imperative to the healing process! That is when our body repairs itself and where results are seen more quickly. Rest helps decrease the risk of injury. What is the point of working out if you may possibly injure your muscles and then have to take 6 weeks (per say) to recover?

    I would take AT LEAST 1 rest day (FULL rest day) per week, if not 2. Your body will thank you later.
  • pcastagner
    pcastagner Posts: 1,606 Member
    Have you ONLY been working out for 2 months? Muscles need rest. All of them! Your heart is a muscle too, so it needs rest too! You can get a great workout in less time rather than focusing on every day. You can do combination exercises that work two or more muscle groups at a time and cut your time in half. You can do fusion workouts that combine many types of exercises (strength/cardio/martial arts/pilates/yoga/etc.) and get a awesome workout just 4 days a week!

    Rest is imperative to the healing process! That is when our body repairs itself and where results are seen more quickly. Rest helps decrease the risk of injury. What is the point of working out if you may possibly injure your muscles and then have to take 6 weeks (per say) to recover?

    I would take AT LEAST 1 rest day (FULL rest day) per week, if not 2. Your body will thank you later.


    Resting your heart would be cardiac arrest.


    No, you don't need to take a break from cardio, but you do need to vary intensity if you expect to keep making gains and not show signs of long term stress.


    What I used to call an active day is what I now call a rest day, so this is really relative. What you need to do is avoid long term stress by giving yourself a chance to recover when you need it. This is really a question of degrees. So if you start to see decreased performance, give yourself a break. Go out hiking, or some other active but easy activity.
  • vingang
    vingang Posts: 4
    yeah changing workout also a kinda rest... thnx bro !!!
  • vingang
    vingang Posts: 4
    hey thanx... :)
  • dogo187
    dogo187 Posts: 376
    in my opinion, not taking a rest day regularly sets you up to burn out at some point...

    I work out 6 days a week with two of those days being a double workout (Body Pump followed by RPM or Step Intervals)...

    I have to take a rest day which happens to be Sunday...where I don't do much of anything aside from some cleaning, cooking, playing with kids but that's about it...

    im pretty sure that most of us here will be of the same opinion, one day at minimum though two wouldn't hurt...
  • lmcww8
    lmcww8 Posts: 10 Member
    Speaking from personal experience.... my idea of a rest day used to be 1 hour on the elliptical instead of running/weights or bodypump classes. I'm now recovering from knee surgery as a direct result of overuse. Rest days are important- full rest days, not just light cross training (although that's important too.) My advice is to take at least one rest day per week willingly before a much longer rest period is forced upon you :)
  • dwh77tx
    dwh77tx Posts: 513 Member
    Very important to take a rest day! I learned this the hard way. I didn't take any rest days last summer and lost my period from working out too hard. Now, I take one full rest day a week. I don't do any exercise on my rest day and just go about my business. Take at least ONE a week- seriously!
  • katy_trail
    katy_trail Posts: 1,992 Member
    muscles rebuild on your rest days. unless you're a super hero or a vampire with automatic self healing powers,
    it days hours, days to rebuild the muscles, not just a few mins in the gym.

    also, if those are intense cardio sessions, you're likely minimizing your lifting results.
    you'd get better results if you made your lifting sessions more intense, and workout LESS. or at least at a light intensity
    on your non-lifting days. most routines suggest a max 2 days of intense cardio a week, so you don't minimize your lifting.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I go for a walk on my days off (usually the day after bodypump because I'm so sore).
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    It depends. I'm on a five day body part split so each muscle group gets four days of rest but I don't take a full rest day. There's some muscle group cross over on compounds but those are mainly getting used for the isometric aspect of the lift so I let those slide.
  • IzzyBooNZ1
    IzzyBooNZ1 Posts: 1,289 Member
    my rest day is no other exercise apart from walking my dogs

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