ACTIVE REST - WHAT IS THAT?

Active rest means that you are active while you rest. You actively do something else while you rest from the other - quite simply.

ACTIVE REST

Active rest is a relatively common concept and what you then talk about is that you stay more or less active during your rest days, which you have between your training days.

When we talk about active rest, we do not mean that rest, but we are referring instead to the rest time between training sets. Here's how: if you run 10 repetitions of an exercise, rest, 10 reps, rest and 10 reps again, we want the little rest you have in 10-40 seconds between your 10 reps to be active.

STRENGTH TRAINING AND ACTIVE REST

Strength training is a form of training where you want to get maximum muscle strength and growth. To achieve this, it is usually recommended 8-12 repetitions of an exercise, three times, with short rest in between. The rest between exercises is usually between 10-40 seconds. Usually you perform an exercise, then you wait completely sonic for 10-40 seconds to go, the muscle gets a short rest, and then you run again.

We instead advocate active rest.

An active rest means that you activate yourself between your exercises, instead of resting. Active rest can, for example, be that you jump or jog on the spot. The purpose of active rest is that you maintain a higher heart rate between exercises, which means that you get a more high-intensity workout with increased calorie and fat burning as a result.

BODYWEIGHT TRAINING AND ACTIVE REST

When we exercise, we often use active rest. This means that we work with a relatively high heart rate all the time, regardless of whether it is a smaller muscle group such as the biceps or a larger muscle group such as the back, we run.

Here's how we do it:

Let's say we are going to run a workout for the front arm, and are going to run three exercises, each exercise we run in three sets with 12 repetitions in each set. If your training partner starts with 12 Biceps Curls in the straps, you stand and jog / jump on the spot, as soon as the partner is ready in the straps you change - you jog and the partner curls ... So you continue until the workout is completed, which usually takes about 12-15 minutes. If you train yourself, do the exercise in the bands first, then you stand up straight and run on the spot for 30-60 seconds, then on the bands again. Even if the workout is short, it is intense, fitness-enhancing, fat-burning and increases muscle mass.

APP

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Good luck resting actively!