You can’t train all THE time, and while it’s true that sometimes you may not exercise enough, there are also times when you’ll be tempted to exercise too much.
Recovery (sleep, rest, and active rest) are crucial for the restoration and repair of your body. This ‘remodelling’ of the body is what we are stimulating in training. Training, to some degree, ‘breaks the body down’ whereas your recovery time ‘builds the body back’.
So, honour this process and train hard, but also support your efforts by eating and sleeping enough, relaxing when needed, and doing gentle restorative exercises to move, mobilise and activate the body.
Have 1 ‘active rest’ day per week
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.
