What is going on, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts Fitness podcast.

I hope you're having a tremendous day thus far.

In this episode, we're going to talk about something that is not only very important, but also

very overlooked, especially I think this time of year when people are gung-ho about those

New Year's resolutions, although I don't know by the time this comes out, maybe you're not

so gung-ho about those now. But, you know, so many people focus on, you know, going into the gym and working hard,

and you feel like you can't skip a day, no days off, put in the work.

But it's not going to be your best route if you're looking to see sustainable progress.

And listen, I'm somebody who when I was 16, 17, 18, 19,

I would work out seven days a week. Sometimes I would work out seven days a week two times a day.

Like I would go in the morning and do, you know, I would go in the morning and do chest. I would go

at night and do back. I would go in the morning and do quads. I would go at night and do, you know, I would go in the morning and do chest. I would go at night and do back. I would go in the

morning and do quads. I would go at night and do hamstrings. I would go in the morning and do arms.

I would go at night and do shoulders. It was stupid. Like now that I'm even thinking about it, you can tell I'm

laughing out loud. But I used to do do that so I'm somebody who I took no

rest days no days off and I just learned very quickly why that is not going to be the best

for for various different reasons whether it's you know talking about from a progress

standpoint actually making progress whether it's talking about burnout whether it's talking about burnout, whether it's

talking about motivation and fatigue. So all of these things we're going to touch on in today's

podcast and really just explore why rest days are not just like, oh, you're skipping the gym

and you're not working hard and you should be there every single day.

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