Comments on: The Importance of Rest

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:31:10 +0000

In reply to Tarek. Overreaction is overreactive.

By: Tarek

Tarek — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:30:11 +0000

Thank you so much
After months of training my lowerback is starting to hurt
Im taking 14 days off

By: Renata

Renata — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 01:48:37 +0000

I am actually taking a week off my intense workout. I was a bit scared myself to take a week off but this has helped me to think I am going to be okay. Thanks 🙂

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:24:11 +0000

“No I don’t get it. I genuinely do not get it. How can doing nothing possibly make me fitter than exercising?

Also I don’t consider cycling, my exercise of choice, to be a chore. I love it. I look forward to it.
I simply do not understand how doing nothing will benefit me.”

Because you don’t understand how exercise works on a physiological level. Your muscles don’t get stronger during exercise, they get stronger after exercise. Your muscles won’t properly rebuild if you don’t give them a chance to.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:04:46 +0000

I love this article. I think I need that rest you are talking about…right now!

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:20:15 +0000

I didn’t get it either. And then I took a week off – forced to due to strained tendon and catching a cold, and I came back about 6-7lbs stronger in all of my compound lifts. By the end of the rest week I felt like I must have gotten so much weaker, as some of my muscles felt smaller and I had put on some excess fat by maintaining most of my lifting diet. When in fact, the opposite was true – I got STRONGER, lost the single lb of excess fat quickly enough, and am ready to set new PRs in everything.

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By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:10:32 +0000

No I don’t get it. I genuinely do not get it. How can doing nothing possibly make me fitter than exercising?
Also I don’t consider cycling, my exercise of choice, to be a chore. I love it. I look forward to it.
I simply do not understand how doing nothing will benefit me.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 03:15:46 +0000

This is literally what i needed to hear. On my third week of more intense weight and cardio traing to loose body fat i am starting to feel pretty rubbish.i only took 2 days off (but not really) in 3 weeks and felt terrible about doing that! But now im feeling over trained for it.im really gonna try and not do anything physical this weekend. Its gonna be a battle

By: Rajesh Sharma

Rajesh Sharma — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:26:36 +0000

One to two week of recovery after few weeks of heavy weight training is what I enjoy most.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 25 May 2011 01:08:18 +0000

“Odds are, if you’re like most out there, the mere idea of taking 5 days (or more) off from training fills you with fear. All your strength, muscle and fitness will just disappear. And, oh my god, you’ll just get fat.”

Haha, this is EXACTLY how it feels to me. But then, I’m thinking about how my joints crack more than old people’s, I haven’t taken more than 3 days off in more than a year and a half, and I’m starting to feel ‘tired’, and ‘overtrained’….

It’s such a hard mental game to give yourself a rest period… But I think I’m going to do it… Urgh. Thanks for the article – i’m going to stick with the plan that after a rest period I can really hit a higher peak and push it even more intensely.