So you want to get in great shape, and you're willing to workout for hours a day, seven days a week to do it? You're actually not helping yourself get in shape at all.

You see your body only can handle so much stress. I'm not talking about the stress you have at home or at work. I mean physical stress.

Whenever you workout you cause stress on your body. Since the workout is hard, your body has to adapt to that workout so it won't be as hard next time around. That's how you get in better shape. It's your body's way of protecting itself against the physical stress you place on it. But if you workout every day, you don't give your body the time to heal itself from the other workouts.

Think of it this way, you don't get in shape working out. That's just the stress you place on your body. The starting point. You get in shape when your body heals itself, in other words when you sleep and eat good clean food.

So if you workout too much and don't take days off then your body can never heal, and it starts to break down. And when you body is stressed it tries to hold onto fat. Not too good huh?

So next time you want to workout every day of the week, take it from me, and I take two full days off a week. It won't help you, and might just make you in worse shape than you are right now.

Enjoy your rest days.

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