Active Recovery Day Workout Routine. What To Do On Rest Days To Come Back Stronger In the Gym.

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Planning an “active recovery” workout on rest days is a great way to give your body a break without being totally sedentary. Heres a simple active recovery day workout routine to restore your body and refresh your mind.

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Your body needs time to rest in between exercise sessions so that it can repair itself properly—and come back stronger. Plus, if all your body gets is physical stress without rest, you can reach the point of diminishing returns, or the point at which more exercise doesn’t result in any more progress.

Rest days are an essential part of any well rounded fitness program. They help your body recover from workouts and allow you to come back stronger for your next. But if you’re a go-hard-at-every-workout kind of person (like me), or you just hate the idea of taking a day completely off from exercise (also me), it can be actually be HARD to take a rest day! Active recovery workouts let you get in some activity while giving your muscles and joints the rest they need to bounce back stronger than ever. By performing an active recovery workout on your rest day, you can give your body a day off while giving your mind a refreshing mental break from vigorous workouts.

How Often Should I Take an Active Recovery Day?

If you’re training more than five days per week, or you just hate the idea of taking a day completely off from exercise, consider subbing out one of your weekly workouts for an active recovery day. If you’re currently training three or four times per week, you can turn a couple of your “off” days into active recovery days to keep building strength and aerobic fitness even when you’re not working at your hardest. That being said, complete Netflix and chill rest days (as well as sleep) are a worthy part of your training routine, too. There’s nothing wrong with taking days off completely, so don’t forget to listen to your body and give it a break when it needs one.

Active Recovery Day Workout Routine Exercises

The exercises that you will perform in this active recovery day workout routine video include:
  • Standing breath with arms up and down
  • Side stretch reach
  • Side stretch with triceps stretch
  • Knee hug and change
  • Worlds greatest twist stretch
  • Achilles and ankle stretch
  • Spine twist
  • Thorasic mobility chest opener
  • Thread the needle hip stretch
  • 90/90 hip and lat stretch
  • downward dog
  • low lung
  • Quad stretch
 As always, please check with your doctor or physical therapist before starting this or any exercise routine. Honor your body and move mindfully. Modify exercises when needed.

 Active Recovery Day Workout Routine Video

For those of us that love to sweat, taking a rest day can be one of the hardest parts of training. But when you start to take active recovery days and replenish your body with nourishing movement like the active recovery day workout routine above, you’ll start to see so many benefits in your performance and mindset! Try to use this active recovery day workout 1-2 times per week in addition to your balanced fitness programming. If you need help designing a fitness and diet plan to see results, contact me for coaching here or join one of my fitness coaching programs! Together we are stronger and can do more, Id love to help you!

Keep resting and recovering, you are coming back stronger!

Caroline

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