Recovery and Rest
Resting Heart Rate and What It Says About Your Recovery
Your legs feel heavy, your sleep was fine, and you cannot tell whether you need a rest day or are just being lazy.
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Sleep, active recovery, and the signs that you are doing too much too soon. The part of training that most beginner plans forget to mention.
Recovery and Rest
Your legs feel heavy, your sleep was fine, and you cannot tell whether you need a rest day or are just being lazy.
Recovery and Rest
You finish your last set, you are tired and hungry, and the poster on the gym wall says to spend ten minutes stretching.
Recovery and Rest
Your legs are stiff from Monday's squats, your plan says "active recovery" for Tuesday, and you have no idea what that means.
Recovery and Rest
Delayed onset muscle soreness, the dull, stiff ache that shows up a day or two after a hard or unfamiliar workout, is one of...
Recovery and Rest
Most people understand rest days, but far fewer know about the deload, a planned week of deliberately easier training that lets...
Recovery and Rest
During the last big football tournament, my training log fell apart.