Do you NEED a recovery day?
1 Apr 2025 · 1 min
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JJ Virgin, a 40-year fitness veteran, argues recovery days don't mean sitting still. Try rucking or hot yoga instead. If you need a recovery day, your workouts probably aren't hard enough.
JJ Virgin, a 40-year fitness veteran, argues recovery days don't mean sitting still. Try rucking or hot yoga instead. If you need a recovery day, your workouts probably aren't hard enough.
I've been in the world of fitness for like 40 years now, so I've gone through a lot of crazy myths and misunderstandings. And one of the ones that we always used to hear is that you needed these rest days, these recovery days, like you should be sitting on the couch or something. The reality is I build in workouts every single day so that the day that things blow up on me, I'm not going to worry about it. But also, when I think of a recovery day, it's probably not ever sitting on the couch. It might be going out and doing some rucking. It might be going and doing a hot yoga class. It's doing something different, but it's moving. I make a point of moving every single day. I think it's what we should be putting into our life. So that whole idea that we need to recover a lot more, I think what we need to probably do is work out a lot harder than we are.
