Why you need a Rest day?

We know for a lot of people it can be hard to take rest days! Especially when you find yourself hitting PRs, Enjoying your sessions, and making good progress – the last thing on your mind is a rest day.

It is important that rest days become an essential part of your training plan. Why? Well, in particular, it can aid in helping you in reaching your goals and many more…

The benefits of Rest days

Preventing Injury and Fatigue

Whenever you push your body through a tough workout,  you create microscopic tears in your muscles which then recover and allows your body to recover and grow stronger.

These small tears are perfectly normal however overtraining can lead to these tears becoming larger which lead to series of injuries. Allowing the body to rest means that your muscles can repair leading to improved strength and reducing the risk of injury in future sessions.

More goal hitting

One of the most important parts of a workout program is making sure you are consistent. It’s all well and good working out day in and day out but how can you expect to progress constantly if your body isn’t fresh?

In order to see constant progress, it’s about staying consistent and take it one step at a time to push your body to adapt and grow stronger but also have the time to recover between sessions.

The reduced risk of injury and improved recovery means you can train better and harder in order to see constant results and continue hitting goals.

If you’re regular or new to the gym, making sure to build in rest days, so your body can get recover from training.

Rest days = Muscle Gains

Weight training is just the start when trying to build muscle, rest days can sometimes feel counterproductive but in order for your muscles to grow, rest days are important to allow the break down in your muscle tissue can repair and adapt to come back stronger.

More importantly, the biggest part of recovery and growth happens while you sleep, Make sure to layer in enough rest days and that you manage to get at least 8 hours of sleep a day.

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Written by The Performance Solutions Team