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General Fitness & Exercise
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Need to take a day off?

emmaleigh47
emmaleigh47
Posts: 4
Joined: 2004/09/26
United States
2004/09/27, 11:22 AM
I have been reading that you need to take a day off bewteen weight training. Is that true if you are only doing light things. I took a look at the basic full body routine for home people on this site and I love it... but do I have to rest inbewteen days.

And, when I am resting, is it okay to do cardio or pilates on that day?

Thanks for your help!
emma
oscarg
oscarg
Posts: 198
Joined: 2004/04/05
United States
2004/09/27, 02:06 PM
hi emmaleigh47,

When your training heavy your muscles are torn apart and need lots of rest before workingout the same muscle. I suggest letting the FT plan tell you when you rest. So if you choose to w/o 4 days a week. It would give for ex; sun/sau/wed as rest days in which you could do cardio/pilates.
As for using light weight, I don't think it applies, as much.
But for cardio or pilates...you can do it everyday if you wanted too.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2004/09/28, 01:48 AM
I train every single day but I change between different sports like weight training, swimming, stretching, running, ice skating, biking etc
I don't ever calculate when I'm going to have a rest day but if I feel tired or my body is sore then I take a rest.

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