Tri / Triathlon / Triathlons - do they float your boat?

My coach likes to talk about periodisation, he advocates two weeks hard training then one week of easy so all the sessions still happen but done at lower intensity and duration, but in the real world this works around races for us, so the race is in the easy week and if there are three weeks between races then go for 3 weeks hard and then have an easy one etc....

Still doing as many sessions stops the feeling of craziness in a usual taper, and still leaves you fresh for racing....

Sleep is awesome too, and I've just discovered baths!

I don't have a coach and don't really enter competitions.. I just like training.

I agree that rest is important but it doesnt really answer the problem.. what if the training regime you have set is just too hard to ever recover from even with rest inbetween time?

I'm coming back from injury and doing a similar amount to what I was doing before, maybe at higher intensity but its just feels like a restday does nothing.

Infact I feel better with active recovery, but probably end up just doing another training session again.