Sat having a coffee on my rest day.....my wk1 r2 is tomorrow and I have kept to my normal routine of going to the gym (spin class and weights,) since my first run. I feel as if I should be doing some sort of exercise ......I shouldn't feel surprised at this cause every week when I have my rest day I feel like this, irritable/lazy and just wanting to go to the gym. I literally have to force myself to rest. I would like to add I've been going to the gym for 30 plus years on a regular basis and have only just this last year started feeling like this. Does anyone else ever feel like this? someone said its an adrenalin addiction ?
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Go to the gym... just don’t hit the treadmill... get it out on the exercise bike of do some upper body work... it’s only high impact leg work that’s not allowed! Running releases some chemicals that are the reason Mary Jane tobacco give us a high apparently!
Think I'm going to have to, even if every book and personal trainer I have ever read or met says I am supposed to have at least 2 rest days a week....for years I've only managed 1 day and it drives me up the wall !!! my other half despairs with me on rest day, he says its like living with a crazy caged animal!!!! ....now where's my trainers ?
Maybe having a rest day for a muscle group would work just as well... upper body day gives the legs a rest... exercise bike for the upper body rest... I can’t see a physical issue with that, and you’re not adding it as well as running at the same time... so you should be fine to do what you normally do.
Well I am no expert by any means, but I have been walking 10-12 miles each day,every day,sine retiring from working on a farm, probably have one rest day a year! I am approaching 70 and can honestly say I don’t think it has done me any harm.
Started running for the first time end of November doing the programme and am now finishing week7, since the runs started getting a bit longer, week 5 3rd run, I decided to schedule two days between runs, would love to run every other day, but as I still have to walk my boys on run days I was getting a bit tired, but find this schedule works really well for me. I always used to say walking was my drug of choice, and do believe I am addicted to it. If I don’t walk for a reasonable distance then I do feel worse, so don’t think you are alone.
I did check with my Pilates teacher who is also a qualified physio if I was being slightly mad to walk every day, run 3 times a week, and do Pilates 4 days, and she was very supportive and didn’t see a problem as they all complement each other.
Thank you for your input. I really must get a balance to keep me happy and having a rest day does not make happy. So I think I'm going to have to find something a little less strenuous than my present routines for one day a week just to give my body a bit of a rest. I'm on the wrong side of 65 but really don't feel it and I want to keep it that way 😊
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