Are “rest days” actually beneficial? Or are they just a conspiracy created by fatties to keep me from extra gains?

Oldfag here. Overtraining is bullshit until you hit your mid to late 30's. Then it becomes real.
I lifted heavy nearly everyday for 20 years and then when I hit 35 I constantly felt like shit and couldn't think straight. I ate more, used more supplements, used some of those under the counter supplements, etc. It helped with recovery but no matter what my body was fucking wrecked after every heavy workout.

Overtraining gets real when you get older. Now I only lift 2 or 3 days a week. I'm not getting any smaller and when I want to show off my oldman strength I can. Make your gains while you're young so you can just maintain them when you're old.

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I’ve been doing this for years... I’m dying.

They are very beneficial. You need to recover. The people who train every day with no adverse effects are on steroids and have a very enhanced capacity to recover, or they meticulously balance workload so that overall work each day is done in less than 20 minutes and doesn't accumulate hard.

You dont have to be on roid to be able to train every day. You just have to have built up the work capacity and the ability to handle lots of training.

You can train every day, or you can train in a linear progression making PRs every workout. Not both. And if you are beginner enough that the latter works, doing the former is stupid.

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Cardio betch

You don't need rest days, do a variety of physical things throughout the week

This

My lifting "rest" day is for cardio. I doa brutal HIIT session followed by LISS.

I do push/pull/cardio. No "off" days, but my muscles obviously have a chance to recover on the cardio days.

Sometimes I go lighter on squats and do plyo work on cardio days too

You think pro athletes take days off? Like COMPLETELY off? No light cardio or nothing? Puhhhlease

Olympic athletes are also roiding.

strongmen do it everyday
tho active recovery is GOAT

>comparing olympic athletes on roids to the average person

t. Salty faggot not getting enough gains in a week

I just do heavy lifts every other day and lighter/more isolated/calisthenics stuff inbetween

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Yes but that's because he has the MINDSET that most don't

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no bro

rest days are absolutely neccesary, even more if you squat and deadlift heavy every week, you cns needs to recover from all the fatigue

Late 30s here. I've noticed injuries and pains take exponentially longer to recover from. Also, it's much easier to get fat.
That said, even I haven't really hit an overtraining wall yet. I guess it's coming though.

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Late 30s oldfag here. I can either lift 6/7 days a week, or drink, but not both. Tendinitis won’t fucking heal. My friends are all married and don’t want to lift or go out anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter in the long run.

About 3 years ago I was doing really well in the gym for the first time in my life. I had a job, was lifting 3-4 times a week, and running 3 times a week as well. I had just hit 2pl8 squat and was overjoyed, but the next day my legs were sore as hell. Not "DOMs" sore, mind you, sore enough to barely move them. I kept going to the gym but couldn't do nearly as much as I used to and my runs were suffering. I had a doctor checkup the following week and asked him about it. He asked what my routine including my job was like.

>"Well, I run or lift every day and then work on my feet at my job for about 8 hours per shift. We don't have any chairs in my department so I really only sit down at home or on my break."

Doctor looked at me like I was retarded. Told me my legs were getting basically no chance to rest and to cut one of the three out of my routine and my legs would get back to health, but that I should also take a week or so off to help recovery.

Rest days are crucial.

You don't necessarily need rest days, but you need rest. Depending on the body parts and workout intensity, the rest will be different. If you do full body every time, you should probably take rest days, alternatively do cardio.
It's intuitive as fuck anyway, you can feel when your body is ready for the next workout,. You shouldn't need advice for this unless you're min/maxing your workouts and gains, and in that case, a homosexual ornithology forum isn't the place to get your data.

I still want to get in the gym and do SOMETHING on rest day. Are abs a good choice here? I already do a little bit of ab at the end of every workout but they don't need the rest like my legs do after heavy compound exercises.

pplppl abs/cardio is meta

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>another one snaps his stuff

Some people have really weird ideas about pro athletes. Yes, they take days completely off. Sometimes they take weeks off and get wasted every day.

25 here but I've also had tendonitis issues and now that you mention it it does flare up when I'm going erreyday and drinking. Thanks for the pro tip.

t. How to destroy your knees, hips, and back

I'm squatting 3 times a week and since I got close to 300 pounds I need every rest day I can get.

i literally exercise every day twice and once on sundays. Sunday is my rest day. sleep 8 hours daily.

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the people saying "Olympic lifters can do it why cant i" are the same people who can only squat 200 pounds and dont know they elite lifters use gear. I squat 500x3 and deadlift 550x3 and I train 3-4 days a week, any more and I would be dead. After a max squat day I sleep for like 10 hours too.

If you want to do something on your off days and you are not a novice why not do some conditioning? Do some max effort 50 yard sprints for 10 sets with just 15 seconds of rest in between, i guarantee next day you are gonna be sore all over, meaning you are still just a novice who needs to get stronger. You can build work capacity with things other than weights and NEED to build work capacity when you actually get stronger.

Yeah people on here are retarded and like using excuses to go easy on them selves. I run 2 miles everyday and do full body workouts too. Sure some days I deload and do less weight than I can but thats in prep to hit prs

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Ask me how I know you're weak

As you get stronger you'll need effective rest in order to continue to improve. This doesn't necessarily mean "rest days", active recovery is important to stave off reversibility.
You don't get stronger from lifting heavy weights, you get stronger from recovering from lifting heavy weights.

Anyone squatting less than 200kg/440lbs won't understand this.

Can I train forearms, traps, abs, and calves on rest days?

Is sleep good?

Try doing yoga or some cardio shit during rest days, maybe pick up dance or a martial art or some shit

Shit man, I'm 27 and fucking scared of this. My muay thai teacher told me the exact same thing, other older guys too

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This. Getting good sleep (7+ hours) and eating right are also important.

>Cardio+stretching
>yoga
>meditation/breathing exercises

>2miles everyday
Good for you but it's a 20min jog and not even mildly impressive

>t. 115lb twink runfag with one of those fag watches

>Are “rest days” actually beneficial? Or are they just a conspiracy created by fatties to keep me from extra gains?
Ask me why i know you never actually trained hard.

thanks man. looking up ppl now it sounds great

thanks man. looking up ppl now it sounds great

I wasnt saying its impressive ass hat. Its enough to burn off my pre and post workout whey drinks then I calculate the rest of my calories for my weight lifting time and + my bulking needs. I cant run too much cause of past football and rugby injuries. In the summer when I can bike I focus on cardio more and will do 150 miles or more a week.

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Not user, but how so?

Genuinely curious

i love bugez but using him as an example for train every day is terrible.

Rest days are a meme and I also was one of the guys who said you need them but the truth was I never tried training everyday because I was looking for an excuse to have rest days. Been training every day for over a year now and my performance skyrocketed.