Do I need to bother with rest days if I'm just doing bodyweight exercise? I do 5 days a week and take the weekend off.
Do I need to bother with rest days if I'm just doing bodyweight exercise?
Do I need to bother with rest days if I'm just doing bodyweight exercise? I do 5 days a week and take the weekend off.
Do you feel like you've recovered? Then you're fine
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you could get tendonitis otherwise
never neglect recovery
You can get tendonitis even if you feel recovered. It sneaks up on you and sucks. I was in peak condition and my lats were growing massive. Then I had to stop all pulling for over a year because of fricked up tendons. Still have pain.
stop lifting will not solve tendonitis
typical rookie mistake
you wasted a year for no reason anon
Yes you fricking moron. If you're exercising at all you should be going to failure to stimulate growth regardless of weights or bodyweight, which means you then need to recover.
Recovery is the most important thing and if you overtrain your gains will stop and morons will tell you it's because you aren't training hard enough or you need to bulk and get fat or that you've hit le natty limit.
Train, recover, repeat.
How often? Should I rest every second day?
for the average person it seems like you should do the same muscle group twice a week with at least a day between
certain muscles seem okay with more like calves and abs but it varies per person
Train as hard as you can in a session then rest until you feel fully recovered, then train again. This could be anywhere from 4-7 days depending on your genetics and quality of sleep/nutrition/other recovery factors etc.
Training before you have recovered. Recovery happens first, then adaptation follows. Then you train again. The people preaching training 6 days a week or every other day are usually only seeing success on anabolic steroids which have the primary benefit of increasing rate of recovery.
It takes more than 24 hours to recover and adapt.
what would constitute overtraining?
>If you're exercising at all you should be going to failure
Boomer detected
Going to failure is important but this rock lee shit doesn’t actually work for unjuiced humans
Doing a couple pull-ups every day is going to get your cns used to the movement like walking and pump them up with yummy nutritious blood
You only need to work out once a month
everything else is a waste of time
The problem I have with mentzerism is that it's easy to invert his logic of
>more is better? Then why not do 400 sets :^)?
By just saying
>less is more? Then why not do 1 gym day a year?
There's obviously a middle optimum and it's not once a week or once biweekly, look at the average gymlet
>Do I need to bother with rest days
No.
>mfw on rest year
gotta recover
i did something to my rotator cuff doing everyday pullups. need rest days
Dont listen to any advice ever.
Exclusively monitor your recovery and adjust based on it.
I used to do 6 days of heavy weight, constantly felt like shit, then i dropped it and started with 6 days of weight+ heavy cardio, still felt like shit, and eventually got down to 2*resistance/light cardio and 1*heavy cardio workout per week, so thats 3 and now i feel and look better than ever at 215 6'4.
Turns out i recover slow as shit no matter the nutrition and sleep and after doing it this way for 3 weeks i take a whole week off and then the *gains* set in and thats what i assume my body 100% recovering for the first time . Its weird but its true and i look and feel great.
Bottom line, monitor your recovery its all trial and error and very individual
seems tough to fill with useful exercises. if a day looks like 1 hour of pushup variations, 30 mins of abs and you do that 2 or 3 times a week, chance is you'll get a joint or tendon issue in the next half year.
pullups specifically are an exception. change grips, don't go to a relaxed deadhang, try to use arms as little as possible, and you can do them for an hour a day forever. used to do that for a while with weights, made good progress, but couldn't curl for shit after
Bunch of pussies in here taking days off. Overtraining is extremely difficult. Alternate muscle groups and you can go all week, also add running. Obviously you just need to listen to your body and if you're destroyed every day start taking more frequent breaks. Taking every other day off is just lazy.
If you have plenty of sleep, recovery and good food you can train as much as you want in my experience.
Obviously if you work a physical job and sleep 5 hours a night while eating 500 calories a day you can't train 6 days a week.