When books and magazines say get at least X days of rest a week, what do they mean? Do they mean don't run? Or do they mean complete rest? Sadly Tunney, it just means don't run, rather than "Go lie down in a darkened room with a bottle of champagne

Hi All, I have had shin splints for ages and sometimes they are worse than at other times. I have done the R I C E everytime it gets worse and have rested for ages but it always somes back - I have had my gait check and changed my trainers now

Have been reading an article about rest and it was talking about taking a whole week of rest after every 8 weeks of intensive training.Do any of you do this? Yes, but its not planned and usually forced by cold or some injury though. *he says after

Being a very keen runner and high energy person...well,I hate rest days....i like to glo out and do an easy 4 on rest days just to get my endorphins up for the day....however,i`ve got east hull harriers 20 on sunday and know that i should really do

! If you get to the stage where you can run for 30 mins in 8 weeks (one months time?)  then you will complete the 5kThe day itself will find the extra minutes for youAs  for a rest day  every  other day,  I presume that is what the schedule has for you

, although I have normal blood pressure, and I am overweight but healthy, before I started running I was a smoker and drinker and I had a resting heart rate of about 65. In the last three weeks since I started running it has dropped to 42, after a total

My marathon schedule gives me one day of 'rest' a week. So I don't run that day. Simple enough.I schedule my rest day in to the weekend so that I can spend time with Mr LizzyB. But I might spend that day on the bike, walking up mountains

or very light running. I rest from cycling for 2 days before a race. (I commute 30 miles a day so it wears my legs out). I don't take any time off from swimming. Running, 2 days. I don't do any exercise on Sats and most races are on suns.for me, easing up

How much rest do you think you can get away with without losing form? depends on your form and what your goals are!2/3 weeks won't hurt most if you're in good shape to start with but 2/3 months would produce a tailing off of form Thank, am having

why cant i be motivated to go! is it time for a full week rest (though that doesnt sound right) the last 3wks have been hard to go-i did have a really bad cool last week and mange to do 5m sat 5miles sun but finding it really hard in the week as i