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It's all well and good wanting to get fit or to take up training. In order to get fit you do have to push yourself that bit harder on a relatively regular basis. However, if you push too hard and don't get adequate rest then you may find you'll not be doing yourself too much good and could easily end up injured or ill.
Remember rest is a vital component of your training, helping to make the occasional bout of pain that much more tolerable. General fitness can be promoted without undue discomfort. Exercise can be achieved easily by walking for an hour.
If however, you need to increase your training, say because you have to prepare for a competition, then your fitness goals will have to be re-assessed. Training levels will need to be progressed which may lead to some degree of training discomfort. But this does not mean having to do gut-wrenching exercise or training sessions every day, week in, week out.
An intensity and mix of types of sessions are required for specific fitness levels. Adopt a layering approach to workouts to achieve optimum results. Whatever your exercise or training regime your body and mind would give in after a while if you forget to include rest and recovery.
Rest is a vital ingredient in any training programme as are weights or circuit sessions. Prolonged and/or strenuous training bouts can lead to burnout, staleness or even injury. Devaluing the importance of rest and recovery in the training cycle can lead to feelings of tiredness all the time. Muscles being constantly sore could be due to over-training.
Exercising breaks down the structural proteins in muscles and the connective tissue. Those whose activities are impact related could suffer with a greater level of tissue breakdown than those whose activities have a lesser level of impact activity. Once training is finished time is needed for the endocrine, nervous and immune systems to return to normal.
Regardless of your chosen activity, your body needs proper recovery time for your muscles, ligaments and tendons to be able to return to their previous levels and for them to be able to increase their protein content/energy enzyme production capability in order to promote greater strength and endurance.
So remember any good exercise or work-out programme must include rest and relaxation as well as a good diet.
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Author: Ann Brady
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