When you are laying out your plan for your weekly workouts, are you including rest/recovery days? If not, you should be! Some of us love to go hard all the time, but avoiding adequate rest days can set you up for things like repetitive stress injuries or overtraining, which will eventually force you into taking rest days—whether you like it or not. It’s important to include those rest days into your exercise program to allow your body to fully recover from the stresses of hard exercise but still help you move forward toward reaching your goals. So, what does it mean to take a rest day vs a recovery day? A rest day is just that. A day of low activity that you spend RESTING. Resting your body,
You want to make big changes, but you don't know where to start..... Did you set some new intentions for yourself and your fitness or nutrition for the new year? If you did, you are not alone. Lots of people use this time of year to commit to a healthy lifestyle but don’t know where to start. The answer is simpler than you might expect. The perfect place to start, is right where you are. You don’t have to go 0-100. If you have not seen the inside of a fitness studio or gym in years, don’t try and commit to 7 days a week. Try to work in 1-2 workouts per week until that feels easy and then add on. If you eat out 5 days a week, drink soda and have trouble passing up the chocolates on your co-wo