Lead a Fit and Healthy Life
Rest days are important too!!
Rest and Recovery – Why Athletes Need Rest and Recovery After Exercise.
I constantly have to remind myself that rest days are important too. I like the feeling I get working out, so I count on that high. When I take my rest days, I don’t get my “fix” so its hard for me to actually be ok with resting. Above is a link that talks about why we “need” rest and recovery.
If today is not your rest day, what did you do today?
Today was the last day of group for the 4 week program (yay) – new workouts next week.
- Started out w/bosu ball squats and running on/off the ball and burpees w/the ball.
- Next our usual stretching, 30 pushups, a bunch of different stomach exercises and core strengthening.
The 6 stations were:
- shoulder press (you get to use your legs and press the weighted bar up over your head – I used 95lbs)
- hyper ham curls
- weighted jump ropes
- good mornings (55lbs for the women as many as you can do in a minute)
- one handed split jerks – I think I used 35lbs
- hang clean w/dumbells into a squat – 25lbs
PT Station:
- 50, 35, 30 of laying on your back w/a 35lb bar doing shoulder rotation (not sure what it’s called but you go from holding the bar over your chest all the way back until bar hits the ground and repeat). From that rolling pushups. All for time. Today wasn’t great, but 2nd best time for in the 4 weeks 10:40.
- def feeling the pain by end of Q4 in my lower back and left shoulder…no weights this weekend
Oops, the PT is 50, 35, 20!
Ditto the workout that Jersey did except I did not roll on my arm/shoulder on the pt station,My time for the pt station was 10:47.I came home and walked my Dog RYDER for 3.2 miles and now I am going to mow the front yard
OK, I don’t do a bootcamp style workout but I do try to work out most mornings. I do DVDs played on my laptop because I don’t have enough workout space in front of the TV. Today I did the Kathy Smith Aerobox workout. It’s 50 minutes long and involves boxing moves and lots of jumping rope. The DVD is divided into sections with a warm up, stationary boxing, “stick and move” (boxing moves while moving your feet), 2 jump rope sections that include stick and move, 1 jump rope section, an aerobic cooldown and a cool down. I have not actually used a jump rope yet but I am getting to the point where I would like to add it in to the first section at least. It’s considered an advanced workout and I think it’s tough enough for me! It’s a cardio workout.
When I do strength- I do Jillian Michael’s No More Trouble Zones which is a lot of mat work, abs and light weights. I try to mix and match the workouts up so I am not doing the same DVD too many days in a row. One of these days I will get my treadmill fixed and can run again (running outside with 3 kids in tow is tough). I do try to walk the dog 1.25 miles everyday, too.
OK, Stephanie, there’s my workout!
60 min cardio class. 4 stations for 1.5-2 min intervals: jump ropes, ball, kickboxing and step. After each set of 4 stations we did suicides and then started the circuit of 4 over again. I did a little lifting and abs before class started since I arrived early and had 15 mins to spare.
I just did 32 min run on the treadmill. That is 2 mins more than I have been doing.
Hey Kathryn
Great to see you on here! Thanks for posting. Great job on the treadmill. I love to hear what everyone doing. It keeps me motivated and helps me to know I am not alone!
I did a rest day today! 6 days straight = soreness!