What Are The Benefits Of Having A Day Off Exercise? | Why We Take A Rest Day

Why take a day off training? We want to train hard, race hard & take any opportunity to improve our performance so surely any time lazing around is counterproductive? Wrong, a common misconception is that rest days are for the weak, they are in fact for intelligent athletes! Heres's why!

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