Originally Posted by
Poohblah
It depends on your body and your physiology. Some people feel strongest when they rest on the day before, while some people feel strongest if they put in moderate or even hard work on the day before.
This is true, but it requires the added emphasis that fitness is another significant component in this equation. I'm a person who responds well to a hard workout the day before, but it took me a long time to figure this out because this is only a useful thing to know about yourself if you have the fitness to recover from that hard effort by the next day. If you don't have that fitness, you're just going to be even worse off the next day.