10 Signs You Really Should Take a Rest Day

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By Jenny McCoy

As someone who loves working out for both the physical and mental health benefits, I often struggle to pencil in rest days. Exercise makes me feel great, so why would I purposefully not work out? Turns out, many others feel the same way, especially amid the chaos that is our new pandemic world.

“A lot of people are turning to fitness as their sort of escape from reality right now,” Kellen Scantlebury, D.P.T., C.S.C.S., founder of Fit Club NY, tells SELF. With so much in life feeling chaotic and overwhelming these days, exercise can be a needed distraction, a grounding stress-reliever, a controllable piece of reality—and sometimes, all of the above.

https://www.self.com/story/rest-days