Thanks T0ddday. The respectable founder of T0ddday method
my weight is up and down at the 170 mark. As I resumed upperbody, I am not sure if gaining upperbody muscle is a good thing. I was as low as 168.5lbs.. but now back to 172lbs... when I skip a meal.. or after some cardio, i can go back to 170-171....
the target goal of 165lbs. seems not easy, or should it say. it may not even be necessary.
but i will try my best to eat clean and workout... back to the original question. (cross posted from my journal)
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I guess the Key question to me is..
Do i need a Rest day... (Dumb question?)
Before... when i have more time and when i am younger, i workout with longer session. 1hr+, I recall there is a time when I do not need rest day, as I work out like, Upper day Lower day upper day lower day.... later on I have plan like, 1.5 hrs Lifting day, 1.5 hrs Jumping Day rest day and repeat. I still have rest day...
Now... I am waking up at 8am in the morning to have a short 45min-1hr session, and a 45min session at lunch. Instead of having longer individual session with full rest day... I am stuck with shorter session spreaded out in more days. At the same time, I am older..with slower recovery, not to mention i have worse sleep, often wake up at 4 or 5am mid night and stayed up for 30min to 1 hr....
Like today Tuesday, I woke up at 5:50am.. and I could not sleep, so i look up this post and thinking what i should do when i wake up in 2 hrs or so.
Last Sunday I did 45 min heavy olift-squat session in the morning and some added core/chest/jumping around when i was at the beach.
Yesterday Monday, I did 30min HIIT run in the morning and Upperbody Circuit at lunch.
This morning....i feel muscle soreness all around, not extreme, but is there... I was thinking.. may be i should rest it out.. or may be, i should stretch for an hour may be?
at the end.. i decide to go do some jogging. slow jog. 30min. I googled at 5am.. about using jog to enhance muscle soreness recovery just to make myself feel better.
I don't want to overtrain... so i just jog slow.. 3.27km in 30min with avg HR at 147bpm. Sweat alot even though I am just bouncing fwd slowly.
I will stretch for 45min at lunch i guess (which is now). Consider this a Active Rest day may be?
still need to finalize my schedule. Which i should do now... during my stretch (which is now)