“maybe take a week or two off to see if it gets better” just gets me blank stares of disbelief. But i took yesterday off, i can’t take off next week because …
I’ve taken a year off running before and can jump right back into it. Rest is okay. Rest is important.
I grew up in Boulder CO and some of those folks cannot comprehend taking a day off let alone a real break. Like, dude, it rains once a year here and you’re gonna whine that you can’t climb today? Sheesh
This is so pervasive in the running community 😅
It’s pervasive in most sports. Even weight lifting where rests are basically manditory. Still you get absolute chumps who injure themselves out because they work out too often.
Meanwhile I’ve been half-arsing my weight lifting routine for years, but have made and maintained far larger gains, through the benefits of junk food, attainable goals, and laziness.
Can confirm. I’m deep into my second year of (a proper) lifting (regime) and I’m doing it with far less frequency and weight than I would’ve imagined at the start, due to chronic minor injury from constant overreaching in the first year.
(It doesn’t help that I’m pushing 40.)
Damn I needed to hear this. I keep pushing it and slightly hurting my back, then having to go way down, or stopping entirely…
This is the way
Oh, for sure. I’m just pointing it out since I have seen it with every runner I know and we’re on a running community lol.
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Yes, all of those things. Some runners are afraid to rest because they think they will lose their ability to run if they don’t run every day. They’re just neurotic. It’s okay to rest a day or a week or a month or even a year. I’ve been distance running since the age of 13 and it’s necessary to rest sometimes. There’s no shame in resting, and ability to run will not be lost unless there’s some irreversible injury, which is rare for most healthy people.
Not a runner, but for me the feeling is that I can workout for 364 days a year, but if I miss one single day, then the habit is broken and it takes the willpower necessary to move a fucking mountain to get back to the gym after that. It feels like I don’t built habits no matter how many times I do it.
It’s still necessary to rest, but the fear is legit.
It’s possible to workout all year long if you ignore your central nervous system 👍
I don’t want a central nervous system, I want a central confident system. 😎
(For those who need it, /s, please don’t do this)
Won’t feel so confident when you become irritable, your training goes to shit, you start losing sleep, you get sick all the time and so on…
Active rest is your friend
What is that?
Could be as simple as taking a day off training and just going on a long walk or doing chores around the house. It’s a rest day where you use your free time to do something vs taking a day off where you do no real physical activity.
My personal rest activity is disc golf.
Like what the other person said. Stay active, but don’t do any formal (or at least stressful) exercise. Gentle NEAT is better than being sedentary (unless you’re severely ill or injured).
People are having hard time to understand that resting IS an essential part of the training.
It’s almost like constant unwavering exercise can be a problem like abusing anything else. Almost like it’s an outlet for some deeper stress
When I fall off my routine I lose a ton of progress. That first hundred K after a long rest absolutely sucks for me. I won’t run on an injury, but I understand the fear of the pit.
110k is neurotic. Distance runners are often neurotic, they run for the runners high, they run as an antidepressant, they run to burn calories because they eat too much to deal with life stresses, they run to escape loneliness, they run to make themselves healthy so they’ll be more attractive to potential mates, they run to get time away from their family, they run to replace other addictions they’re running away from, I’ve experienced it all and I’ve seen it all.
Yeah… well… I’ve run out of money for therapy
11.9 miles a day
Doctors don’t want you to know this one trick.
Don’t ignore pain, listen to it. If it hurt that’s because you need to fix something. So think of what you have done that cause it. Did you change your habit? Why on this side and not the other? Did something different happened, not necessary in sport, but in your life?
Then try to change and see if you fixed the problem.
To actually answer your question: resting and not going insanely hard like that
12 miles a day in zone 4
And Garmin will still complain about Anaerobic shortage q_q
Injured knee: took month off, bored out of my mind, did rehab exercises, ate well, slowly increased load.
Felt strong ran 3 days in a row, ate like crap, reintroduced squats to workout, played bowls at mum’s bday (lots of lunging).
WhY iS mY kNeE fUcKeD aGaIn?
I need like a D/s relationship but for running. Just someone to bully me into making good decisions.
I need someone like that for my PT exercises, because I forever get stuck in a cycle of pain -> start consistently doing PT again -> it’s fixed, I don’t need to do PT! -> why do I hurt?
Are you a hunk? we could switch for each other uncomfortable boomer eyebrow waggle
Jokes aside yeah… I’m better about that now but it took some learning. Easiest I find just to be like “this is part of my gym routine forever now”
