How important is rest to muscle building. If it's important, how often should I have rest days per week?
How important is rest to muscle building. If it's important, how often should I have rest days per week?
How important is rest to muscle building. If it's important, how often should I have rest days per week?
Really depends on you, obv your arms are resting when you work legs and vice versa. So it's more about how you want to distribute the lifts you want to do. There are people that do 3 full body workouts and rest 4 days, personally i find this harder because you have to do all that volume in one day and it tanks your CNS. whereas working out 6 days a week means you can do easier/shorter workouts and your cns should be fine 24 hours later. that said 1-2 full days off a week is not a bad idea but its more about managing volume.
>how many rest days
how long it takes to recover from your session. However your arms and back may only need 1 day, while your legs could need 2.
Only you will know after trying different programs, intensity, etc.
I find what the other anon said is true. I do 3 day full body, but honestly cannot get every body part into that workout. CNS is fried after an hour and a half.
>2 days for legs to recover
Then why do I have 7 days of DOMS?
youre just starting, even if i max out Intensity I get minor doms in one or two muscles for a couple days
you're pushing way too hard
Rest is the most important thing in muscle building. You can get away with a sub optimal training program, you can't get away with sub optimal rest, at least for a long time.
doms go away the more you workout dumbass, it's not a rest thing
You do not need to reach doms to build muscle. And no, you can get doms even if you do workout often, and it's a sign that you've pushed yourself too hard.
are we not supposed to push ourselves to the limit in each session?
it's complicated, sometimes but not always
the research says between 0-3 reps until failure will stimulate a muscle building response.
doms is a sure sign that you are pushing yourself too hard. It is completely normal to get some doms if you are starting a new workout program or doing a new lift. It is not normal to get doms if you have been working out for a while and it's a sign that you pushed yourself too hard.
Your body isn't going to send you pain signals for no reason. Doms means you need to take more time to rest, which brings down your weekly volume and frequency, leading to sub optimal muscle growth rates.
doms mean almost nothing, if you're too sore to workout then rest but it doesn't mean you did anything wrong or right and they will 90% disappear after 2 weeks working out
Because you're new to the gym. Everything makes you stiff at that point. Trust me eventually you get to the point where you can hit the most brutal workout of your life and then the next morning you barely feel a thing
Kind of important, work out separate groups of muscles on separate days. Dont try to autistically do everything in a single day, resting helps muscles recover and grow faster.
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as for thread, i just listen to body. if i overdo it, i rest until i feel up to it again, but i usually do everything 2 times a week and rest on the days im still sore until im ready to go again
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I mean you only build muscle while resting so you could say it's the most important component
I workout 7 days a week. I have a bare minimum amount of exertion that needs to be accomplished until I "feel better" about myself. 500 crunches, 200 dragon flags, 150 bench dips, 150, bicep curls (35lbs weights) and 150 reverse pulls for tris. If I don't do these exercises at least every day I feel unaccomplished and disgusting. It's a mental thing more than a physical thing. I don't feel muscle fatigue from doing that 7 days a week. IMO that's a very light amount of work and the bare minimum to maintain without overdoing it.
Post arms you must be huge
> 200 dragon flags.
We got a bruce lee in the house.
>important
>listen to your body
just took a couple months of till I had motivation again, hit 2pl8 bench 3rd session back
>he doesnt know
If you don't feel that you need rest days you are doing something very wrong.
1 to 2 days if you are doing calisthenics 1 day between weight based training.
I used to workput 6 days a week and barely saw any gains, then thanks to work and studies I was forced to switch to a 3 day PPL routine and my gains have been much better
So yeah very important
Is it bad to work out while the muscles I'm targeting are still very sore from last time?
It is vital if you don't want to injure yourself.
Resting kills your gains, you should just do meth and keep lifting