Resting – Part 2

In order to give our bodies the proper amount of time to recover from exercise, we need to take time to rest. It may be time for you to take a week off from a long period of hard and consistent training. Remember to make sure that when you are in the weight room, you aren’t training the same muscle groups on consecutive days. Recovery time is the key element that goes into making proper gains and staying healthy. Even though exercising is beneficial for your health in many ways, overtraining WILL put too much stress on your body, weaken your immune system, and will prevent weight loss and muscle gains.

I admire all the people who are dedicated and spend day after day in the gym and train competitively; it takes a great amount of discipline and hard work. Whether training for a bodybuilder event, a marathon, a triathlon, or just working out hard too many consecutive days in the gym, it is important to give your body a break. Your muscles NEED time to recover if you are hammering them day after day with weights or cardio training. You must give them the proper recovery time. As we discussed before, Axis Labs BCAA and Whey Protein can aide with your duration of recovery time; but even so, we still need to take breaks. If we think of our muscles as a fresh cut that we apply a band aide to, then it may give us a visual to justify resting. You don’t want to rip a band aide off if there is a scab underneath that you would also remove. That would only make the healing process take longer. You want the cut to be completely healed. Rest each muscle group for a few days before hitting it again with the weights. Occasionally, it is ok to rest for at least a week, especially. If you just finished training for an event over a consecutive period of time.