rest days

meerkat70
meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm not a big fan of rest days. i feel like i'm nother focused properly if i'm not doing something physical.

Is complete rest necessary? Or is a less intense day sufficient? For example yesterday, i didn't run or go to gym, but i had a lunchtime stroll, and a four mile walk with the dogs. On other rest days, I've had a good swim.

Does this fit in the definition of an 'active rest day'?

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  • RoanneRed
    RoanneRed Posts: 429 Member
    Sounds okay to me, especially if you're not working the same muscles hard day after day.
  • Blackthorne99
    Blackthorne99 Posts: 250 Member
    Muscles do need a rest day in order to recover from a hard workout, but typically what I do is alternate the type of exercise that I'm doing. If I do an upper body workout, then my next workout is lower body or yoga. If I do something (like rock climbing) that is a full body workout, then I do something like yoga or pilates or just ab work (since abs recover faster than other muscle groups). It's just a matter of resting that muscle group that's repairing itself. If you don't give it that rest day, you can actually reduce the muscles you're trying to build because you've torn them down (through working them) and not given them time to rebuild.
  • Deathwithab
    Deathwithab Posts: 462 Member
    i would say that fits into an active rest day :) as long as its not high intensity and lets your muscles recoop its ok. becuase lets face it no day is compleatly rest
  • scooterboy2003
    scooterboy2003 Posts: 181
    I try to be somewhat active every day doing something.
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