This article aims to dissect the misconception around rest days. For many, rest days are a day wasted, a day where you could have been burning more calories, lifting more weight, tearing down more muscle tissue. The misconception that results are obtained only in the gym have stormed over social media in recent years. The mantra that you must work hard 24/7 has created a toxic culture around fitness. Demonizing rest days has caused more harm than good. Numerous individuals complain that they never see results even though they work out all the time. What they fail to realize is that results are lacking because of that very reason, rest days are the reason we grow. Here are a few reasons why.

Progressive Overload, two words that send the world of fitness into a frenzy. Throughout the world of fitness progressive overload is constantly discussed and sought after. It is true, that progress overload represents the holy grail of progress in fitness. To constantly challenge your muscles, forcing them to grow is a recipe for success. However, for the average person working out, progressive overload is all about lifting heavier and heavier. That, however, could not be further from the truth.

This article will focus on what progressive overload is, and how to apply it to your training to yield maximum results.

The term over-training is widely used across social media, where many try to debunk the myth of “over-training”. Claiming that it is nothing but a hoax. For some overtraining is just a myth that people have talked about for ages but have never been able to prove it. The term overtraining stems from the methodology of over working yourself and demanding too much of our bodies. Overtraining occurs when our bodies are not given sufficient time to rest, recover and rebuild damaged muscle tissue in the body. That, sadly, is not identified enough today. Hitting plateaus and not making progress for weeks on end is attributed to not working hard enough, resting too much, and not performing intense workouts. As a result of such a lapse in judgement, people tend to push themselves harder, and demand too much of their bodies leading to burn out and injuries.