If you are doing all of the exercises you stated on a daily basis, you probably are doing too much and opening yourself to overuse injury.
While cardio and strength training can be safely done on the same day, you still need to allow your body time for rest and recovery, and only certain strength training should be done the same day in order to avoid stressing your body too much. Your muscles need time to repair and recover after strenuous activity, so you need to intersperse time off from hard exercise.
Flexibility is needed as much as strength, but I can't tell if you're including any stretches before or after your aerobics.
A good program alternates days of cardio/aerobics and X-training for strength/resistence with ample time for rest and recovery. When do you take a day off?
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Hi, Cindy:
If you are doing all of the exercises you stated on a daily basis, you probably are doing too much and opening yourself to overuse injury.
While cardio and strength training can be safely done on the same day, you still need to allow your body time for rest and recovery, and only certain strength training should be done the same day in order to avoid stressing your body too much. Your muscles need time to repair and recover after strenuous activity, so you need to intersperse time off from hard exercise.
Flexibility is needed as much as strength, but I can't tell if you're including any stretches before or after your aerobics.
A good program alternates days of cardio/aerobics and X-training for strength/resistence with ample time for rest and recovery. When do you take a day off?
October 29, 2008 - 5:06pmThis Comment
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