Could Intermittent Resting Help Ace Your Health Goals?

Nahid de Belgeonne is sitting on a park bench. Her eyes are closed and her hands are folded in her lap. Despite being dressed top to toe in activewear, to anyone walking by, it looks like the 53-year-old is doing, well, nothing. And that’s the point, really. This 10-minute post-run meditation is the most important part of her daily workout. Nahid is practising intermittent resting – and it’s the closest thing to a science-sanctioned snooze we’ve ever heard.

You’re probably already familiar with the term intermittent fasting – cycling between eating what you like and restricting your food intake via techniques like the 5:2 and 16:8. Now, health and fitness experts are talking about intermittent – the idea that the body also needs to cycle through small bursts of inactivity (activity fasting, if you will) in order to perform at