kathryn
Cathlete
>I have never done this before but while doing P90X, they
>incorporated a "rest" week every three weeks. In that rest,
>you do cardio, stretch, core and yoga and NO weights. I know
>that this isn't pure rest, but it has made me see how taking
>some extended time off gives the body a break and gets you
>pumped to come back.
>
Actually, the P90X recovery week does incorporate weights, just not heavy ones: in "Core Synergistics," you use light weights and do lots of functional moves (so a substitution for this workout would be something like a TLP workout, or Kathy Smith's LWTLW2, or Core Secrets, for example).
>incorporated a "rest" week every three weeks. In that rest,
>you do cardio, stretch, core and yoga and NO weights. I know
>that this isn't pure rest, but it has made me see how taking
>some extended time off gives the body a break and gets you
>pumped to come back.
>
Actually, the P90X recovery week does incorporate weights, just not heavy ones: in "Core Synergistics," you use light weights and do lots of functional moves (so a substitution for this workout would be something like a TLP workout, or Kathy Smith's LWTLW2, or Core Secrets, for example).