Active recovery has a ceiling
Keep it conversational. If you cannot speak in sentences, it is another workout. A 20-minute walk, easy cycling, or a stretch you enjoy beats a “light” HIIT video that still leaves you wrecked.
Useful rest-day jobs
Pick one or two. Completing all of them is not the point.
- Walk outside if weather allows
- Drink water with meals
- Do the evening stretch you keep skipping on hard days
- Go to bed closer to your usual time, not later “because you earned it”
Sleep is the unglamorous steroid
An extra half hour in bed often does more than a massage gun. Protein at meals and some carbohydrate after harder days support repair. Ice baths are optional theatre for most people walking and lifting for health.
