Rest Day

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First solid week back on Tridot and I did most of my workouts, with assessment tests this week. Monday is usually my rest day, tomorrow I have my functional threshold test. This will be a marker for where I am in my fitness.

These are two things a lot of people take for granted- rest and tests. If you are in a overall fitness program vs a competitive training program it might not be as important, as long as your are getting out there to be active and fit. In competitive training programs especially training for long distance tri, it is important to get in your rest and tests.

We get into our training, get into a rhythm and we forget to rest or eat right for recovery. Do you follow a schedule or a plan? If you miss a day or don't hit a workout 100% to skip the rest day? Do you have a rest day scheduled? Do you FOMO (Fear of missing Out) if you take a rest day? Rest and recovery is one of the most important parts of working or working towards gains. You might put in the work, but if you don't rest and recover you body will not respond, it will just get fatigued and eventual injured.

If you have a training week and you feel you did not hit it 100% or you missed a day even. Still use that scheduled rest day to rest. Rest day does not have to be completely inactive, you can focus on- breathing, meditating, evaluating how you can have a better week the next week, massage, hydro therapy, stretching... get your rest and recovery in.

Does your training program have regular testing, time trials, or assessments? Maybe you follow your Garmin on how it tells you how many hours to recover and your go by what it is telling you your VO2 is? In competitive training programs it is important to test yourself. These tests should be monthly and conditions should be as close as possible each time, where the variable is only you, if possible. If we say "oh, well I did a 5k in Austin last week and this week I did a 5k in San Antonio and improved my time", this is not a fitness test. The conditions are not the same, the course is not the same and you weren't testing yourself, you were racing.

If you would like to learn more about proper rest and test for your optimal fitness feel free to call, text or email nicktotheplus@gmail.com or 210.843.4130

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