{"id":859,"date":"2024-05-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2024-05-20T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:44:26","slug":"the-love-hate-relationship-with-rest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/the-love-hate-relationship-with-rest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Hate relationship with Rest Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We\u2019ve all seen or heard the phrase, \u201cyou\u2019ll never regret a workout.\u201d When I hear that from someone, I wonder if they have ever had an overuse injury. I\u2019ve had far too many injuries to find truth in that phrase. From multiple stress fractures, to low back pain, to the multiple orthopedic surgeries I\u2019ve gone through for both my hips, knees, and one of my ankles, I have surely suffered the consequences of overworking my body. I can also assume that if you decided to read this blog after seeing the title, you probably know that feeling too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used to be a \u201cno days off\u201d type of person. I would have anxiety over scheduled rest days or sometimes even easy ride days. I blew through recovery weeks in fear of losing fitness and thought I was invincible \u2013 until I wasn\u2019t. Hard workout days would become forced rest weeks or months on end due to major injuries. We live in a society that makes us feel bad for not doing enough in all aspects and it can sometimes be hard to look past that. If you truly put in some HARD work, we can make our largest gains in fitness during recovery days or weeks to allow our bodies to heal and recover from the repetitive microtrauma we have subjected ourselves to during grueling rides and workouts. If you\u2019re smart, you\u2019ll learn to love those recovery and rest days. And if you already love recovery days, KUDOS (I\u2019ll give you kudos on STRAVA for that embarrassingly slow paced recovery ride every time) to you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to our 2024 Iceman Ambassador Allyson Klug @allysonklug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all seen or heard the phrase, \u201cyou\u2019ll never regret a workout.\u201d When I hear that from someone, I wonder if they have ever had an overuse injury. I\u2019ve had far too many injuries to find truth in that phrase. From multiple stress fractures, to low back pain, to the multiple orthopedic surgeries I\u2019ve gone … Continue reading “The Love Hate relationship with Rest Days”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[69,165,72,131,139,179,141],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strava","category-training","tag-iceman","tag-iceman-cometh-challenge","tag-kalkaska","tag-strava","tag-training","tag-training-tips","tag-traverse-city"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}