People always told me to rest one day a week to let your muscles and body somewhat regenerate. How important is it? For some reason I feel guilty taking that one day off.

yeah so do i,wat u can do is get more than 8 hours of sleep because ur muscles are relaxed when u sleep and thats when the mainly recover

If your rested you can train better the next day.

Generally, it's a good idea. Rules are made to be broken though. Again, this is highly individual, and depends on a lot of factors.

Until you're a little older, and more experienced to the point where you recognize to signals your body sends you, I'd recommend you do take that day off. Taking it off when you didn't need to, will hurt you a lot less than not taking it off when you should have! Especially if you're taking care of business on your training days. ;)

Until you're a little older, and more experienced to the point where you recognize to signals your body sends you, I'd recommend you do take that day off. Taking it off when you didn't need to, will hurt you a lot less than not taking it off when you should have!

ain't that the truth!!!
Every year after turning 25 it's gotten harder; especially considering I've had to come back from a lot of layoffs.

Last year I realized my limit was about a 5 day week; often the 6th day would just be too much unless I was goin kinda easy in there.

I know it all goes back to building up slowly & being consistant. If I was a lot better at that, I'd probably have that 6th day easy. But these days my body's VERY vocal if it don't like something.

I know exactly what you mean. Getting old sucks! :D

You can build back up to it though, you just have to take one step at a time and be patient. :)

Everybody does it.....

Of course taking a day out of a week is good. 7 days is way too much, 6 should be the limit. I usually workout intensely 5 times a week M-F and sometimes on weekends, just fool around on my heavybag at home since the gym is closed. Nothing too intense. Just working on technique.

I think you can take a day off a week or just mix up your routine so that maybe you aren't as training as intensely every day, instead of going all out, concentrating on specific areas of your routine for not as long as your normal workout.

I train Monday-Saturday and rest Sunday then start all over again.

Always take that day. For the week you have broken your body down hard. Now give it the chance to rebuild. To rebuild stronger............

Rockin' :boxing:

You should ALWAYS have at least one day a week rest, two is adviseable, this is because when you train you are actually making microscopic tares in your muscle tissue and when this repairs you have muscle gain, therefore it is essential to have a day or two for your muscles to repair before you begin to work them again.

Its been said already but its imperative that you have plenty of rest, rest is as important as anything else you do with your training plan.

Without good rest and sleep you will drain, injure yourself or not perform.

Take two days at least a week and try to get the minimum of 8 hours sleep a night!