Cheat and rest days???

A rest day is an intregal part of your training regimen...exercise is good for you...but it's also hard on the body and the body requires rest to repair itself. You should look at is as a "recovery" day. It doesn't mean you have to sit around doing nothing...it means you should rest from vigorous activity to allow for recovery...where fitness is concerned, recovery is just as important as the actual work.

A cheat day means different things to different people...for me, the notion of a "cheat" illustrates a *kitten* relationship with food...but that's just me.

ETA: when I'm cutting, I do have days where I go over but I rarely go over maintenance...I guess some people would consider that cheating, but I don't...I'm not doing anything wrong. Cheating implies that you're doing something "bad" and I just don't think about food that way.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

A rest day is an intregal part of your training regimen...exercise is good for you...but it's also hard on the body and the body requires rest to repair itself. You should look at is as a "recovery" day. It doesn't mean you have to sit around doing nothing...it means you should rest from vigorous activity to allow for recovery...where fitness is concerned, recovery is just as important as the actual work.

A cheat day means different things to different people...for me, the notion of a "cheat" illustrates a *kitten* relationship with food...but that's just me.

This is very good I agree. Just to add a little bit. Rest days are extremely important because that's when you're actually getting big or toning up. In the gym you rip the muscles. When you rest the muscles rebuild and become stronger and bigger. But remember the gym is only 50%. You're diet plays a huge role in terms of the results you desire. Eat healthy

A cheat day for me is when you take a day and eat anything you want. Of course don't go crazy but do it in portions. Have a good breakfast as always but after that eat out if Ya and have an Icecream. That's usually what my cheat day looks like :P

Rest days are very important, and you can find data on them all over, but I will post about cheat days.

I *LOVE* cheat days. As a man who does not like vegetables, does not eat hardly any fruit, and consists mostly on meat, having a balanced diet (not ON a diet mind you) is hard for me. I have to work everyday to eat correctly, and while a lot of it has become second nature, a other lot has not. Cheat days for me serve two purposes.

#1. It does not feel like a chore staying healthy. Because I set aside myself a single day a week to eat/drink what I want (in moderation, come on now) it allows me a release from the hard work daily of doing it correctly.

#2. I feel that a cheat day tricks your body into not settling into a routine and thus hitting that wall faster. Intermittent fasting also really helps that too(leangains) but this free day really keeps my body going "huh?". And i switch it up, might be a Frida, or a sat, sun... you gt the idea.

This is 100% my personal opinion, and who knows it may be wrong, but it really has worked for me both for health and for sanity.

I try for one rest day a week. I don't do "cheat days". I try to do little cheats within a few meals a week (eating at my folks or when I go out to a restaurant) instead of blowing it all in one day.

Cheat days to me is when you go over your alloted caloric intake

You can make ur rest day ur cheat day but keep ur cheat days once a week or once every two weeks