Learn To Rest

Hope you’re all feeling well and kicking lots of butt today. Let’s talk about smart rest in training. Many neuvo exercise Gurus like to loudly tout examples of guys who’ve lifted weights for long periods of time and ended up with supposedly crippling injuries. They say that to push the idea on you that lifting weights is bad no matter how you do it, it will cripple you. And that bodyweight only exercise will save the day. Hog wash.

I recently read a story of a very high-level powerlifter who is currently undergoing a rehab process of sorts to bring himself back from the injuries he incurred. But to really understand this you have to read the story closely. He was not long-term, debilitatingly injured just from lifting weights. He was hurt from over extending his body and never letting it rest even through injury. He talked about squatting heavy even thought he knew he had a torn muscle, he just wrapped it up. Same thing with heavy bench presses even though he had peck tears serious enough to cause bleeding under the skin, he simply kept wrapping and taping the injury and pounding away at it.

Let me tell you something. If you have a torn muscle and you continue to highly stress it even with light bodyweight exercises, you’ll keep building up injury. That applies to any training tool and any sport for that matter. Fighters are notorious for training through an injury and there are times probably when you should. There are also times when you need to be intelligent about letting your body rest. The body is made to have a natural up and down cycle and you need to get in tune with your own. This is why no one holds an athletic peak for forever. I personally believe you can stay much closer than traditional cycling program s tell you to your peak, but you still have to build in rest into your program. The body only repairs itself when it is resting. That includes not only building muscle, but fixing the damage that you do from treating it rough. (If you play any sport or any training style hard enough you’ll eventually rough the body up. The key there is too much and too long, not that activities are inherently bad).

We are conditioned to believe that only hard work gets the job done. The more you work, the better you’ll get. But that’s not exactly true. Hard work is important but hard smart work, not just blindly pounding away when you know the body needs to heal itself.

Work hard, but take some rest. You’ll be stronger for it.

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