Although taking a week off from the gym/ working out might sound nuts to you, it’s actually an important element of long-term progress.

You see, lifting weights, running, or any other impactful workout puts a lot of stress on your nervous system, muscles, joints, ligaments, and tendons and not to mention your mental state. Over time, that stress builds up and your performance starts to fall off. You start feeling achy, weak, de-motivated to train, and so on. But we don’t want that! We want to hammer all of our sessions without all these negative symptoms of overtraining.