Happy Monday everyone. I am coming at you with a bonus podcast today to talk about my personal experience that I've been having in the last week or so and why I ultimately decided to take a reset week.

So if you follow me on Instagram, if you're an Evel member, you know that I've been taking a reset week

for the past five or so days.

I started kind of Wednesday, Thursday and today's Monday so

almost done with it but in case you're new around here and you don't know what a

reset week is a reset week is when you take time off of any kind of taxing exercise for, you know, four to seven consecutive days.

And during that time, you know, you just move in gentle, enjoyable ways like bike rides, walks,

gentle yoga, really great to do if you're just going on vacation,

to just not even worry about working out and just move your body in

enjoyable ways and it's really great to do every 12 or so weeks to avoid plateaus,

avoid burnout, avoid injuries, and really just keep yourself physically and mentally fresh.

And the theory is that if you are resistance training consistently, taking a week or so or a few, at least four consecutive days at least,

where your muscles can fully recover and catch up, you can move forward and help avoid a plateau because there are some muscular fibers,

some of your type 2 muscle fibers that sometimes can take up to weeks to fully recover.

So giving yourself, giving your system time

where you're not really stressing it very much

or moving in gentle ways, can give your body time

to catch up and is very efficient at moving you forward.

If you've ever taken a vacation and you haven't worked out and you're like shocked when you come back to your

workouts and you're stronger. That's why.

It's probably because your body has had time

to recover and catch up.

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