Is It a Requirement to Take Time Off?

In his experiences, when he work with a high level athlete in the middle of the season, you tell them to take a week off, they're like, yes, sign me up. But the people who struggle with that are the masters, so the recreational athletes I work with,. They go, oh, if I take time off, if I took a week Off, I'm going to lose all my fitness. It's something that is a requirement and the athletes do it all the time.