[주말엔 운동] Is it ignorant 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 actually overworking their bodies.

When they see people who exercise every day without rest, some people point out that they are actually overworking their bodies. Image unrelated to this article. [사진=픽사베이]

As the saying goes, resting is a part of exercise, so you definitely need to rest after exercising. This is to prevent injuries resulting from ‘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 extremely 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 get damaged and you will not be able to exercise during the recovery period, which will cause damage.

So are all people who exercise without stopping every day ignorant?

Even exercises thought to cause overtraining can be a good routine to improve strength depending on the individual. Image unrelated to this article. [사진=픽사베이]

According to a paper titled ‘Overtraining in resistance exercise: An exploratory systematic review and methodological evaluation of the literature’ published in 2020, the experimenters were asked to do squats, a representative lower body exercise, five times a week to induce overtraining, but the strength of the experimenters was low. It continued to grow.

Additionally, the experimenters who exercised their lower body 7 times a week also only achieved the effect of increasing muscle strength, not overtraining.

In other words, exercises thought to cause overtraining can be a good routine to improve muscle strength depending on the individual. Since humans are not machines made identically and each individual’s abilities and genetics are different, the same exercise can be overtraining for some, and boring exercise that does not fatigue the muscles for others.

It is important to figure out the frequency of exercise yourself rather than someone else’s recommendation, and keeping an exercise diary on a regular basis is a great help. Image unrelated to this article. [사진=픽사베이]

Therefore, it is important to figure out the frequency of exercise yourself rather than someone else’s recommendation, and keeping an exercise diary on a regular basis is a great help. If you don’t keep records, it’s not easy to know whether you’re steadily growing or staying the same, so it’s a good idea to keep a journal and check it to find out what needs to be fixed.

/Reporter Shin Soo-jeong ([e-mail])