How many days should pass for your muscles to rest?
Depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
If you are just trying to stay in shape, like I am these days, every other day, 3 or 4 days a week is a good routine for lifting or other muscle intensive workouts. You can work different body parts each day in the week. And you can do cardio on alternate days. That gives the muscles recovery and rebuilding time.
If you are training for sports or competitive lifting or body building, that's a whole different routine. Sometimes its necessary to push past the soreness.
You have to get to know your limits.
A moderate amount of soreness is one thing. Beginners especially will always experience this as will people who have gone for a while without working out. But never work out if you feel pain or that something might not be right. Let it rest and see if it gets better. If not see a doctor.
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Yes! That’s the best time!
Depending on what you’re trying to achieve. I usually did heavy weight and low reps on day 1. Day two, low weight high reps with a focus on controlling form.
If you’re not interested in bulking, just reverse the order and keep the “heavy” weights middling, but still keep your reps low.
It’s that sore period when your muscles are rebuilding. Shocking them with more sets puts them into overdrive. I had friends accuse me of juicing i bulked up so fast. Ell oh ell!
What is your routine like if you don’t mind sharing? After a big workout like leg day, you need at least 48 hours of recovery, provided you consume enough protein and stay hydrated. In between of this time you could do arms or maybe moderate cardio.
It’s fine to work out while sore as long as you don’t overwork your muscles.
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I wouldn't recommend it. Most likely you'd be better off working out when not sore. Less prone to injury for sure. But a good rule of thumb I go by is, if I've given a muscle group 48hours to heal & it's still sore, I'm gonna workout but I'm gonna go easier & really focus on speeding up recovery in other ways if I can.
Yes... The muscles adapt. Although unlike running where you can do the same damn thing everyday, I would suggest you do a split if you're lifting. Push-Pull-Legs and then repeat. Also... the latest science says optimal lifting isn't doing a shit ton of sets per week on a single muscle. I'll talk more if you need more info... but I'll shut the fuck up for now.
Depends what you're trying to achieve.
If I can do 10 pullups in a set.
And then the next day my pulling muscles are fatigued, and I can only do 7 pullups in a set. Then obviously I need at least one day before I can produce the same or more output.
I don't work out unless I can match or beat in strength my last workout.
If your body is hurting it’s telling you something & if your muscles are sore take a little break. On the flip side, no pain, no gain. Take it easy.
Yes but only if it's a little sore. If you're still crazy sore than no. But if it's not a lot than it's OK. Sometimes that happens but you shouldn't miss a day just to be sure you're 100% not sore.
As long as they need. There is no point in risking injury which will put you out of action for much longer. No, instead rest them until you can do light exercise and build up slowly from there.
You can still work out, but work out muscles that are not sore. Give the store ones time to heal before you work them out again
Rotate exercises. Don't do the same thing every day. And if sore don't push them, do something else: it's your body's warning system. Best listen.
You can work different body parts if you are ery sore. If it is just DOMS you should workout anyway. Just make sure you warm up.
Rest time after a workout for the majority of people is between 24 to 72 hours. If you are still sore from your previous workout you're not going to make any progress by working out again. You're just overtraining.
I wish men would work on their personality more that this meaningless time-wasting.
You can just work on a separate muscle group
Yup. That’s probably to offset the DOMs
you must wait.
Nope that would be overtraining
I'd say until they're not sore?
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Yes unless you’re super sore
You are supposed to rotate muscle groups
No. Healing sore muscles is how they grow.
That depends on what your workout goals are
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