The bottom line is that rest is important regardless of your fitness level or experience with exercise, and that overtraining can affect your health and is something that needs to be taken seriously.
Questions we tackle in the article include:
How many rest days do you really need a week?
What is active rest or active recovery?
What happens if I over-exercise? What are the signs of overtraining and how do I know if I'm overtraining?
How many rest days do you take each week? When not working out, what do you do to stay active?
Rest Days, Rest vs. Active Rest, and Overtraining
We’ve seen a lot of questions recently related to rest days, so figured it might be a good time to highlight this article, “How Many Rest Days Do I Need? Rest vs Active Rest; Overtraining Symptoms & How to Avoid Overtraining.”
The bottom line is that rest is important regardless of your fitness level or experience with exercise, and that overtraining can affect your health and is something that needs to be taken seriously.
Questions we tackle in the article include:
How many rest days do you take each week? When not working out, what do you do to stay active?