Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In a past podcast life, I hosted a show called Ask the Coaches on the Endurance Planet podcast.

Athletes would send in their questions and coaches Tony and Lucho and I would answer them.

Now, after a few years, it became a bit of a running joke on the show to point out how often

our answers were prefaced with the words, It Depends. And It Depends is more than just an inside

joke, too. It's the truth.

So much fitness advice depends on so many variables that you should really be extremely

leery of anyone who gives you a blanket prescription for reps and sets and recovery times.

The variables that I personally consider as a coach, a writer,

and a podcaster before I give any fitness advice, includes, but are not limited to where the

athlete is in their fitness journey. How long they've been doing that particular activity,

whether they've had injuries or illness recently. What external factors their life contains?

Their sleep and stress levels, their overall fitness goals, and the list goes on.

Now, I say this to set the stage as I begin to answer the question of how long should you

recover. And you know what? It depends. Now recently I posted a video

showing how I like to use my stationary bike to aid in my recovery between higher intensity exercises

like burpees, let's say. The workout that I demonstrate in the video that I'll link to in the show

notes over at get fit guide

quick and dirty tips.com goes like this. After warming up with some easy cycling, I got off

the bike and did 30 seconds of high intensity, in this case running on the spot with high

knees. Then I got back onto the bike and cycled easy again until my heart rate returned to my aerobic zone.

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