Offdays for excercise

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calitoker90

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What is the importance I have actually found excercising to be pretty fun to let energy out but if I skip a day I feel guilty. So can somebody tell me the importance to have a off day because I feel like running.
 
Well, I feel the same way too but I had to understand that my muscles needs to relax in order for me to lose weight and to gain some muscle.

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calitoker90 said:
What is the importance I have actually found excercising to be pretty fun to let energy out but if I skip a day I feel guilty. So can somebody tell me the importance to have a off day because I feel like running.
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You can run every day and get away with it, assuming you are not doing anything terribly intense. I like to throw one day of complete rest in there for general recovery.

The concept of fatigue management comes more into play when you are discussing more energy intensive stuff such as strength training and high intensity interval training.

The secret is combining everything together in a fashion that promotes recovery of the various pathways while training others, i.e., local muscular fatigue, nueral fatigue, etc.
 
Yea well I dont have a bench so I am trying to get down to 140 by July 28 then I can get a cheap one from walmart or somewhere to start lifting weightts.
 
Whatever you have to do.

My suggestion comes from the idea that while you lose weight, it's a really great idea to give your body a reason to hold onto as much muscle as possible. And lifting weights is one of the main ways to accomplish this.
 
Yes, bodyweight exercises. They are not ideal, but if your body is not used to strength training with weights, they will be sufficient for now. You can also use resistance bands and the like.
 
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Yea I dont think I would but listen to music and think release energy makes it pretty interesting and goes by fast. Bad part is I think I sprained my ankle a few days ago so its kind off a pain to run now but I still do it just look like a old man off balance.
 
I notice that sometimes it is "hard" for me to not go to the gym and run. I love it. I usually run on the treadmill for about 30 minutes with my music blaring, and feel all this energy (on a good day, which is most). I even had some wicked blisters on my feet this week from last week's running. I just taped them with medical tape and they never bothered me at all.

I know it's important to take a rest day though. I usually try to take one about every 3 days or so. It's hard because I know that my body needs it but at the sametime I usually feel "fat" and lazy on my rest day just because I didn't go to the gym... I also think that weight training while trying to lose weight is a good idea. It is what I am currently doing right now and it's definitely working, my body is reshaping itself right before my eyes.

-Sam
 
I've been told by my dad to take weekends off from exercising but i did that once and it was hard to get back into exercising the following monday.

Should i take weekends off?

Music is the best when running. It can motivate you and keep you in a rythem.
 
I have an off day about once every other week, but it's not really planned. Some days I just have a hard time fitting it in or just feel like I need a break, and I think that is the best time to have the break. Other than that I will have some days that are lighter than others and those kind of give my body some recovery time without making it harder to get back into it the next day.
 
I used to run all the time. I'd run monday-friday. The weekends were great for my body, I felt like I was healing from torn muscle. By the time monday came I was knocking time off of my run every monday. Friday my time was down, but the next monday it was lower than the previous monday.
 
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