How Much Recovery Time Do You Really Need Between Workouts?

How much time do you really need between workouts to build muscle or avoid overtraining?

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[littleflor]

When I was a child I was active thought-out the day, everyday. Walk up the steep hill to school, play chase at lunch time, gymnastics for PE, country dancing club after school, walk home, play outside in my roller skates, make up a dance... At the weekend go for a walk in the woods which might include climbing a tree or running up a hill, the next day at the park timing ourselves a circuit of the play equipment. We did it for fun, not to exercise. If I was worn out from a million jumps on the bouncy castle in the heat of summer at a birthday party, I'd fall down red faced and our of breath, then be back at it ten minutes later!
I'm trying to become that child again. Short workouts throughout the day, do as much as I feel. If I happen to feel tired one day then it's ok to take it more easy. I want to get out of the workout mindset and just live like a happy, active playful person.

[danielhughes]

This is hands down the most useful YouTube channel. To the point, informative, his knowledge for our benefit. Keep up the good work my man.

[giovanni_guitar]

1:10 might be the most intelligent definition of workout I’ve heard in my life.

[williambond]

Damn. "Working out is a mere mental construct to a physical phenomenon" that's was deep and very extenstental.

[jrg]

The problem is if you're working with clients, they have trouble understanding the nuanced, scientific answer and want you to tell them the number of days and give them a prescription for certain exercises, sets, reps, and not tell them to listen to their body because that's too wishy washy to be paid for, apparently. But it is the correct answer, and people are very out of touch with what actually broke their body down or didn't

[pedroj]

Spot on. I took 3 days rest after working out for 11 days. My body just needed that extra day. It was telling me to not workout and relax. I did, and saw gains after the rest period.

Listen to your body people

[markorerecic]

First time I heard Dorian Yates talking about how exercising taxes your whole sistem was game changer for me. What I noticed is that your muscles can be ready but without central nervous system being fresh nothing works.

[daveadams]

This fits in with being farmer strong. Spend all day shifting heavy hay bails but then refuse to come to work the day after because you are “recovering”.

[jon]

Grease the groove and consolidation training are the most effective strategies I have used for strength and muscle. Stimulate, do not annihilate.

[dropweightdaddy]

Agreed. I train until I get tired and then I rest awhile. If you’re enjoying an activity and are Able to do it then go for it.

[FormlessJKD]

Lmao that close up when you got tired was so 80's.

[trevbarlow]

Matt "Morpheus" Schifferle. Just needs the sunglasses.

[lostsaxon]

Solid as always. Learn the difference between fatigue, injury and laziness and act accordingly. As with nature, those who are able to adapt survive, BW/Micros very much allow you to adapt and progress.

[federicoum]

you have to train this is what my chiropratic also he said that the phisical activity that we do in these days is never enough to compensate the stress that we have from everyday life

[jakemaxwell]

In the past I worked out 2 days a week thinking I needed the rest because somebody on the internet told me.

Now I just workout as often as I can, with basic exercises. More activity, less analysis

[MikeDG]

i think the rest for two days is best applied to high intensity weighlifting as that is where most studies were conducted. For other stuffs such as physical labor or even calisthenics you dont need two days rest. you just have to rest enough to get the central nervous system working back, and possibly even until tendons are recovered .

[joshuabyrne]

Really love your channel, unbelievable that it’s not more followed because you’ve got brilliant and original content on here. Keep up the good work man! ❤️

[geo]

Finally, an honest answer to the age old question. Just listen to your body and you'll know when you need a rest. This of course assumes you're not just lazy minded, in which case you've got a much different problem to solve, that being, what's your motivation to begin with?

[edge]

I like doing active rest where I keep intensity down to avoid stress but high enough to get blood flowing faster, especially into any sore muscles. I'm never anywhere near failure, but I can perceive a point where it could happen if I let it (but of course I don't). Sometimes I can tell I didn't work a muscle hard enough on my working days, but other times I know I absolutely killed it which is awesome. It provides good feedback.

[BrianRDriscoll]

edit: sorry, was just noting this down to solidify the info for myself if anyone reads.

Best information I have had on working out in awhile. Very great way to change my perspective away from viewing it as "workout" and "recovery" versus stimulating certain parts of the body and energy systems depending on exercise chosen which causes a stress response that then causes recovery... but the question is... did what you do cause a need for adaption to improve that part of your body in the way that you want? And how much stress was caused and how much recovery is needed for that physiological stress to gain improvements and to recover (which to me also means recovering to prevent future injuries). Useful when focusing on different types of exercise regiments to be good at more than 1 type of fitness. The amount of workouts you can do are limited as you build up over the years so really need to get precise with what each workout is for and how to recover.