Rest, without it, there wouldn't be any adaptation of training, sometimes is sooooo hard for many of us and others not so much ... But is such and important part of training, this helps:
Reduce your fatigue.
Reduce risk of injuries.
An appropriate training load is applied to an athlete, followed by an appropriate recovery, the athlete's body not only returns to the previous baseline, but supercompensates in order to be prepared for a greater future training load.
Acceleration of recovery between efforts and sessions.
Now that I have your attention: the resting periods could be fast (>6 h), slow (6-36 h) o or really slow or supercompensation (<36) but also keep in mind that we all don't recover at the same time after an activity, it varies significantly with you age, experience, gender, altitude and where we live.
Resting categories:
Change of activity: Not just accelerate your recover process, also it gives you a mental brake and strengthens other muscles, the only thing that you have to now is that it will give an extra training load.
Total rest: This is to give complete rest to the body, having a good nutrition and hydration protocol.
Active rest: It is about continuing to increase the aerobic volume at a really low intensity this accelerates muscle regeneration.
Application of external recovery procedures: such as sauna, ice, hydromassage, massage, foam roller ... this more than anything else will give us a psychological stimulus and will help us feel better
Rest between efforts: this more like in DURING training there are short and long. Both vary according to the final goal of the training or stage that you are at.
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