Rest or Be Forced to Rest

For those you morons who think that rest days are the worst thing ever invented....you're a moron. Rest days are very vital to our exercise experience. Even Olympians have rest days.

 What happens is over time during workouts our muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and joints become "injured". Our muscles tear and our joints strain, this is when our immune system starts to kick in and begins to repair them. BUT if we don't take rest days and are constantly practicing, our immune system cannot keep up with us. Repairing the muscle tissue is where we see the muscle growth and naturally the secret to "getting big".

 The level of rest depends on your fitness level and/or sport. Sometimes for some people a rest day just consists of easing off on your workout and others consist of no workout at all. Either way, rest days could be considered one of the most important parts of working out.

 We need to allow our bodies to rest and heal, this way we can prevent injuries. Constant work with injuries such as shin-splints can create more damage and over all destroy any career that was possible. You can't work when your injured, so basically you just lose all of the progress preceding your injury.

Don't injure yourself and lose all of the hard work you've done, take a break. Rest up!

(Info courtesy of: https://www.wellbridge.com/fit-like-that/give-it-a-rest-its-ok-to-skip-your-workout)

(Image courtesy of: http://thetamburarunner.com/2014/02/10/cleveland-marathone-training-week-3-the-importance-of-rest-days/)