As we shine a light on how rest is essential for our bodies overall, it’s time to explain where rest plays a part specifically with exercise and fitness. Like the reasons stated prior, rest and sleep are essential. They could make or break you. In fact, a lack of rest in fitness could go so far as to reverse the progress that you have been working so hard to obtain. But to clarify, rest doesn’t necessarily mean skipping your workout, but by maybe engaging in a low intensity workout after a high intensity one. The goal is to focus on the concept of periodization, a practice that promotes regularly working out and moving through different levels of intensity – light, moderate and high intensity- to allow for that needed rest. By focusing on periodization and those rest periods, your body will exhibit the following results:
