[주말엔 운동] Is it unreasonable if I exercise every day without rest?

[아이뉴스24 신수정 기자] When they see people who exercise every day without rest, some people point out that they are really overworking their bodies.

As the saying goes, rest is part of exercise, so you definitely need to rest after exercising. This is to prevent injury due to ‘overtraining’ and to grow muscles smoothly.

Overtraining is a state of chronic fatigue caused by continuously engaging in high intensity exercise It causes symptoms such as insomnia, hormonal decline, depression, and tinnitus, and makes you feel very tired and helpless.

Once you feel the symptoms of overtraining, it can take up to several months to recover.

If you just exercise without resting like this, your body will be damaged and you won’t be able to exercise during the recovery period, which will cause damage.

So is everyone who exercises relentlessly every day ignorant?

According to a paper titled ‘Overtraining in resistance exercise: An investigator systematic review and methodological assessment of the literature’ published in 2020, the test subjects were asked to perform squats, a lower body representative exercise, five times a week to encourage overtraining, but the strength of the test subjects was low.

In addition, the testers who used their lower body 7 times a week only had the effect of increasing muscle strength, without overtraining.

In other words, exercises that are thought to cause retraining can be a good practice to improve muscle strength depending on the individual. Because people are not equal machines and everyone’s abilities and genetics are different, the same exercise can be too much training for some, and a boring exercise that does not tire the muscles for others.

Therefore, it is important to understand how often you exercise yourself rather than someone else’s recommendation, and it helps a lot to keep a regular exercise diary. If you don’t keep records, it’s not easy to know if you’re progressing or staying the same, so it’s a good idea to keep a diary and track take it to find out what needs to be corrected.