This might be a stupid question but how bad is it that I’m “bad” with rest days? My training plan is slowly spacing out rest days but I’m not good about actually “resting” on them. I do other exercises (not counting my set cross training days) and sometimes more relaxed runs. I know giving my body time to recover is important but I often feel restless. (Cont.)

TL;DR: I’m bad at resting. Like today is a rest day but I went for an extra run. Bad idea to do a pole-dancing class today on top of it?

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Just go. Unless you’re training for the Olympics you’re taking this way too seriously. Enjoy time with your friends and showing off your buffness!

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Who said I WASN’T training for the Olympics??? 🥇

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I don’t do test days, mostly because my stupid brain won’t let me. So to accommodate my own dumbness I go on de-load cycles. So I’ll still go to the gym as usual, but cut the weight down to about 25% of what my working sets are, take longer time between sets, and generally just move.

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This is probably what I should try!

Update: decided on pole dancing for tonight! Seemed too fun to pass up! Wish me luck haha

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Cont. - for example, today I’m in the city w/ my friends and they want to go to a fun pole-dancing class tonight. I think someone on here has gone to one before, so correct me if I’m wrong…but pole dancing mainly works out my upper body, arms, and core (right?) 😂 but today is technically a rest day. However I was bad and now feel exhausted this morning because I did an extra run earlier. Very proud of this run too because it showed lots of improvement. Anyway. I still REALLY wanna do this class because it looks fun!! We can go another time this week but it’s either on a training day OR a rest day. Should I just go? My friends won’t go without me so I’ll also feel bad stepping out.

Is pole-dancing (for fitness!!) ok since it works out a completely different area of my body than when I run? LOL 🤣

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Make this bowl proud and bully your buddies to that pole class tonight! 😆 💃🏻🕺🏻

It’s okay to do active recovery days. I don’t like rest days either, but I try do a lower impact workout (yoga, Pilates) or recovery ride day once every week or two. I’m also not super focused on a physical goal right now though. If you’re really focused on a goal like building muscle I think you want to be mindful of giving your muscles time to recover and rebuild, either by doing a split program, deload strategy like Google mentioned, or having rest/active recovery days.

The other thing is to listen to your body. It you’re too sore to move or starting to feel run down, it’s time for a rest day.

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