Active Recovery #GottaHaveIt

Goin’ hard is great, but be sure to give your body some down time. On the weekends, I literally wear myself out teaching group fitness classes. So during the week days, I try to mix in an Active Recovery workout. For instance, this morning I did this “Treadmill Recovery Workout” at my hotel gym. It’s great fitness option because it keeps my cardio up, burns calories (about 250) and lets my joints recover so I can go hard next weekend.

Keep in mind, that extreme (high intensity) workouts are not intended to be performed more than 3X per week. This means no CrossFit or running sprints every single day! If we don’t give our muscles time to recover, they never rebuild. We want our muscles to rebuild because that’s how we develop more lean muscle mass. More lean muscle mass = more strength AND more calories burned while our bodies are resting – yay!

Try my “Treadmill Recovery Workout” on one of you lower intensity days and let me know how it goes. Enjoy!

Take it easy every now and then! Lots of luv, Brit

 

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  1. Oh I SO need this today – had a killer workout on Saturday morning and my DOMS today is worse than I’ve ever felt it. THANKS, Brit!