{"id":3423,"date":"2013-01-04T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2013-01-04T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:56:19","slug":"today-is-a-rest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/today-is-a-rest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is a rest day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;and I always struggle with those!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rest days are an important part of any training schedule, but I think it&#8217;s quite common for even the most of experienced athletes to feel guilty for &#8216;taking a day off&#8217;. However, the body needs rest days so that it can recover, repair, rebuild, and strengthen. The body needs to adapt to the training you have already done and allow a &#8216;training effect&#8217; to take place. Too little rest and recovery can result in symptoms of &#8216;overtraining&#8217;, such as fatigue, depression, and a decline in performance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite knowing the above, I continue to struggle with rest days. I feel guilty, I worry that I will lose fitness, I feel restless, and I will often manage to persuade myself that another activity is &#8216;rest&#8217; because it&#8217;s not running. Today, however, I have abstained from exercise! We are only 4 days into the New Year and I&#8217;m still on my best behaviour. But, even a day completely free of exercise doesn&#8217;t make good the damage done by chronic sleep deprivation &#8211; one of the lesser joys of having a 9 month old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and I always struggle with those! Rest days are an important part of any training schedule, but I think it&#8217;s quite common for even the most of experienced athletes to feel guilty for &#8216;taking a day off&#8217;. However, the body needs rest days so that it can recover, repair, rebuild, and strengthen. The body needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,379,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-psychology","category-running-pregnant","category-training-sessions","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}