A physically active lifestyle:
- requires a reasonably consistent balance of:
- fitness
- strength
- speed
- endurance
- agility
- mental acuity
- rest and recovery
- prioritizes rest and recovery as highly as physical activity, and as such necessarily includes typically brief periods of days or weeks of inactivity. During such recovery periods, deeper rest may be beneficial in response to injury, illness or emotional fatigue which may:
- have resulted in loss of appetite
- resolve through eating less calories, minimizing physical exertion and / or undertaking a hygienic water fast of a period which is:
- short such as perhaps 1-5 days if self-supported
- long such as 1-4 weeks if responsibly supervised by an experienced professional