When To Let Your Body Recover - Upfit Academy
When To Let Your Body Recover

There’s no doubt about it. You have to do the work to get the body you want. It includes pushing hard when you’re working out. Your body needs a chance to recover. You can’t do intense workouts every day. Your body needs time to rest. That’s when all the magic takes place and when your body heals. Intense workouts, especially strength training, cause micro tears in the muscle. During the recovery time, those micro tears heal. If you don’t give your body that opportunity, it continuously tears down the muscle.

Exercise burns off stress hormones, but it also creates stress on your body.

If you’re pushing hard, you’ll feel it. Pushing it hard at the gym puts stress on your body. Even though it burns off emotional stress, your body still endures physical stress. That’s another reason not to push it intensely every day. Your muscles need 48 to 72 hours to heal. If you don’t, you’ll notice some changes, like an increased resting pulse rate, exhaustion, depression, and diminished results. You might even find you’re losing ground.

Are you getting colds more frequently?

That’s a sign you need to rest. Burnout diminishes immune functioning. It causes sleep disturbances. The fatigue from burnout can cause your reaction time to slow, reduce your endurance, and negatively affect your agility. Doing a high-intensity workout once a week is okay, but you shouldn’t do it daily. If you’re building muscles, give them time to heal. Include recovery exercises in your schedule the day after an intense workout. Recovery exercise includes moderate walking, swimming, and bicycling at a moderate pace.

You can prevent over-exercising or promote recovery by taking a few extra steps.

Sleep is your friend when you’re working out. Exercise helps you sleep for a reason. When you sleep, your body heals. Sleep is necessary for cardiovascular health. If you find your mind wandering throughout the day or lose your focus easily, take steps to ensure you get rest. Don’t wait until recovery requires you to quit exercising completely. Treat your body with respect because it’s the only one you have.

  • If you want to do strength training daily, alternate between muscle groups. Work your upper body one day and your lower body another. Keep it at a moderate intensity.
  • Our personal trainers and coaches can help you with a program that gets the best results without pushing you beyond a healthy limit. They understand the problem and recognize the symptoms.
  • Live a full life. Fitness helps you do it, but getting there shouldn’t replace a life beyond the gym. Take time with friends, volunteer to help others, or enjoy Mother Nature taking walks.
  • Rest days not only help your body heal. When you rest, it rebuilds the glycogen stores in the muscle. Glycogen fuels the muscles and improves your workout. Lack of glycogen causes muscle fatigue and soreness.

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