You don’t need to train every day, but I have found that doing something active every day helps to stay in a mindset that encourages better behaviours and patterns for both eating and the maintenance of exercise.
Simple, gentle, recreational activities like walking, easy hikes, recreational sports, swimming and surfing also provide ‘active recovery’ as they are very different from your gym or sports training sessions (both in terms of movement types and energy systems) and often contain little of the ‘eccentric’ (lowering or resisting) portion of movement which induces the most muscle breakdown and soreness.
Be active…daily!
From Carb-Appropriate 101 by Cliff Harvey PhD
Carb-Appropriate 101 gives you 101 daily tips to help you achieve the energy, health & performance you deserve. It includes daily tips for nutrition, movement, exercise, meditation, mindfulness, sleep, stress-reduction, and more! These tips are some of the themes that Cliff has written and spoken about over his decades in practice, in ‘bite-sized’ mini-articles.
Read the book from cover-to-cover, applying a tip a day, or simply open the book to any page to find a valuable health and performance tip to help you feel and perform at your very best.
