Longer Breaks

So once in a while, we have to take a week break, or maybe, sometimes even longer than a week break. What's going to happen? Are your muscles going to shrink? Will they become weaker? Softer? Will you lose your tone? Your power? Your energy? The list is limitless, but it depends on how you take your break and for how long.

So sometimes, you just have to take a break that's more than a week long. Why? There could be plenty of explanations. But so to speak, sometimes those breaks are good for you.

   Now I don't advise, workout a month, take the next month off, and then rotate your exercise programs. But you have to take a week break as said every two to three months.

   As of suffering injuries in the past, and things of the like, I've had to take two, three, and sometimes four week breaks myself.

   Usually during the holidays with all of the hullabaloo that's going on and how busy things are, I personally take a two week break once a year. It's a good time to rest the body, let the immunities reevaluate themselves, and gives your muscles a break from that constant stress that's put on them. 

   Sometimes, if not all times, with a break that lasts more than a week, you're going to see gains in your muscles because they will have time to completely rebuild themselves. They won't be entirely accustomed to your workouts as they once were at the beginning of your break, so you will be pretty sore at first when getting back into things.

   Sometimes your joints could use a rest, your tendons, ligaments, bones, all of it. It's good to just take a rest that lasts more than a week once in a while. Find that time, maybe once or twice a year where you let your body completely repair itself, and when you get back into your workouts, you'll be a bit back, but feel a little better, and a little stronger each time. It's not like your muscles will go away, or get a lot weaker. What's a ten pound difference? You can get that back in a week. Take a break once in a while, let things get stronger where they need to. It's good for you.