Rest Day

How important are rest days?
I've read opinions that stand by rest days, just as I have that they are unnecessary.
If I do strength training every day, will there be a negative impact on my muscles?

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Yes. No rest days is pretty stupid. Gym 3 times a week is good enough. At most you should do 6 times a week.

Muscles literally grow (get bigger) during rest days (not after you are done lifting) why cant so many people grasp this?

If you do a split you can get away with fewer rest days. I'd still recommend givimg yourself 1-2 days where you do something other than resistance training.

If you're plateauing you could try taking a week of "active rest" doing cardio and stretching and maybe some light calisthenics. Overtraining is real and I'm guilty of doing it too.

yeah retard
your muscles just gonna wait until you go to sleep, wake up the next day and then they wait, see if you're doing you're workout
AND ONLY THEN do they start growing
>okay guys we're in the clear
>today is officially rest day so lets to work on the growth shit

>if i workout, will it have a negetive effect on my muscles?
no retard. rest days are when the muscle is built and you should take a few in order to come back stronger in the next excercise.
I don't see the point in doing strength training everyday, I'd much rather prefer to do the same volume in a 3-4 day peroid. taking a rest day everyday or every other day.

Oversimplifying and humanizing the concept of biological processes. Workouts wear out and break down muscle tissue, so then the body builds it back up stronger by metabolizing dietary proteins and amino acids. This process can take days, depending on the work load for a given workout. Technically the process starts after the workout, but continues over the next day or two.

muscle protein synthesis takes about 24-48 hours to complete depending on age/gender.
That means most of the muscle protein synthesis/muscle building/gains will take place mostly in the next day, so let your body do its things and don't be your own gain goblins.

Please just be bad bait and not an actual persons real thoughts

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why the fuck do i need to rest if im not working out the same body parts retards

so you're admitting that muscle synthesis doesnt just start without a rest day
it starts right away the moment it gets the signals to start

why the double negative? you make me confuse.
taking a rest day will be optimal for the muscle to growth is what im saying, no point in going to workout again when you body still hasn't recovered from the last one.

Autism personified

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>for the muscle to growth
*muscle to grow im retarded

Depends on your workload, I "rest" once a week when I do mobility and stretching for an hour and a half.
My daily shit is pretty low weight high volume though so if you're doing that /plg/ thing you may need rest days.

That is a specific and thoroughly helpful answer, without any insult to me or anyone else. Thank you

I'm just saying that dude said that muscles "literally grow on the rest days" implying they dont grow like after the workout and overnight

its questionable to me wether its optimal or not but saying that they dont grow without a rest day is just stupid to me

>implying they dont grow like after the workout and overnight
That's not the implication at all.
And in the first 2 years of training, muscle growth is maximal after 24 hours. So the day after training is more important for growth.

What are your thoughts on working out 3 days in a row per week, instead of something like MWF? Hopefully I'll only have to do it for a short time period, but still.

It's fine, just do a split so you're working different muscle groups each day.

I'm doing greyskull, so it'd be OHP/DL/chinups and squat/bench/rows. Is that split enough?

Uh, no, that’s not split at all. Since you’re obviously very new still, it might not hurt to do it the way you described for a couple weeks, but you’re not gonna make the same linear progress, if any progress at all.

not gonna make it

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Depends on how advanced you are
If you bench 400lbs and have a FFMI of 25 then rest days are dumb but if you are in your first 1-3 years of lifting you should max lift 4-5 days a week to promote optimal muscle repair

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