Are rest days a meme

are rest days a meme

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Do you really think you need a whole days rest cos you went to the gym for an hour where you spent 95% of the time sitting on a bench doing nothing?

yeah bro you have to shock the muscles.. keep em pumped
they heal within a couple hours... go hard or go home

I've never not laughed at that pic

the Bulgarian method and some kettlebell routines (e.g. Simple & Sinister) have essentially no rest days

so it depends. you can adapt to stressing the body in this way—including stressing the body in the same way—but it might not be optimal for you, right now, and it certainly won't be optimal for you, forever. at some point the stress required to drive an adaptation is enough to cause too much fatigue for you to go to the gym the next day and do anything other than light/speed work

unless you're on drugs

to add to this: as part of my personal plan i was trying to do VO2max intervals on a turbo trainer the day after squatting and i was consistently failing at this, for weeks and weeks on end. i hadn't detrained as a cyclist; it was just fatigue that i couldn't fight through or adapt to

every notice how people who work manual labor are jacked? even though they work every day? it's because the idea of a rest day is just a general guideline idiots need to follow so they dont injure themselves when they dont realize theyre exhausted

> Do PPLxPPLxPPLx
> Injure myself despite perfect form
> Tendons and ligaments don't heal nearly as fast as your muscles
> Recover for 2 months
> Do Push (strength) Pull (strength) legs (strength) PP (hyper) L (hyper) rest S&S
> body feels fatigued, can't keep up at work anymore, legs feel super tight.
> This is while eating grilled chicken, broccoli, zucchini, carrots, sweet potatos, lentils, Skyr, Eggs, Cheese, Avocados, Oatmeal, fruits. etc

Yes you need rest days bro

Cause weekends don't exist.

>are rest days a meme
No, they're not.
You go to the gym and intentionally cause damage to your muscles lifting heavy things, to provoke an adaptation response from your body, to repair and rebuild those muscle fibers stronger than they were. This takes time, building materials, and energy. At the very least you don't work the same muscle groups on consecutive days because less than 24 hours is not enough recovery time; at best you work different muscle groups.

Then there's the matter of accumulated fatigue. You go to the gym for anywhere from 1 to 3 hours per session. If you're being very aggressive about it and lifting 6 or 7 days a week, even if muscles are recovering sufficiently enough in 48 hours to keep up the pace, and even if you're eating more than a sufficient amount, and even if you're sleeping 8 to 10 hours a night, quality deep sleep, the rest of your body is accumulating fatigue and not completely recovering from it, so you're carrying over some fatigue from one week to the next. After several months of that you've accumulated quite a bit of fatigue and would need to take several rest days away from the gym to 'pay down' that fatigue-debt.

Now, above I'm talking about someone who is genetically lucky enough to recover from trianing quickly, and has the time to sleep as much as they want. Most of you aren't that guy, most of you have school or jobs or both and other things going on that take up your time, and you're lucky if you get 7 to 8 hours sleep a night. Most of you also don't recover from one day to the next sufficiently to keep training 6 or 7 days a week without burning out after several weeks in a row like that. So you have to build enough rest into your training schedule to prevent that, because Overtraining is a Real Thing, and granted you have to really fuck up bad to have that happen, but also it sneaks up on you if you ignore it, and once it happens you're forced to back off for from days to weeks.