How long is best to rest your muscles after training them?

[God_Tua]

im a new starter to this, first i will be training my arms, so after first day session, how long should i rest them before pickling up the weights and training them again?

i heard a valuable time is 40 hours???

[Big H]

1 week (especially since your starting out).


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[Typical Doppelganger]

1 week (especially since your starting out).


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ONE WEEK?

I'D SAY THREE DAYS MAX, EVEN FOR A BEGINNER

I JUST STARTED TRAINING SERIOUSLY AGAIN ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO AFTER A LONG HIATUS, FIVE DAYS A WEEK WITH REST DAYS ON SAT/SUN. I DON'T SEE ANY SIGNS OF OVERTRAINING YET AND MY RESULTS ARE GOOD. I CAN UNDERSTAND IF IT WAS A PARTICULARLY HIGH-INTENSITY WORKOUT ON A MAJOR MUSCLE GROUP, BUT FOR THE MOST PART BEGINNERS START LOW-INTENSITY PLUS HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS ARMS

FEEL FREE TO DROP SOME KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE I'VE NEVER NEEDED A FULL WEEK TO RECOVER FROM ANYTHING OTHER THAN INJURIES AND THE FLU

[Big H]

The typical lifter needs atleast one week for FULL recovery after training a muscle group. Its not that you can't train again after three days, its just that to ENSURE hes not overtraining and getting max recovery its best to wait the week. You simply grow faster and bigger using this routine. New lifters going through Hypertrophy need time to eat and feed their growing muscles. Plenty of recovery is needed when someone is just starting out. Experienced lifters whose muscles are adapted to heavy training can get away with training the SOME muscle groups every 3-4 days (Chest, Shoulders, Legs, and Back definitely need atleast one week... if your ACTUALLY working out and not f*cking around with b*tch reps and weight).

Now with that being said, if he is going lite on his lifts and using low weight then I can MAYBE see him training the same muscle group again in 3-4 days. But like I said, once his body adapts to that low level of training, more intensity and weight must be added, and when he hits that stage its crucial that he gets his full week of rest until his body adapts to this new phase.

Plus I don't know what his diet and nutrition are lookin like so 1 week is probably a safe choice. Not everyone has the right diet and supplements needed to train a muscle group more than once a week.

[Typical Doppelganger]

The typical lifter needs atleast one week for FULL recovery after training a muscle group. Its not that you can't train again after three days, its just that to ENSURE hes not overtraining and getting max recovery its best to wait the week. You simply grow faster and bigger using this routine. New lifters going through Hypertrophy need time to eat and feed their growing muscles. Plenty of recovery is needed when someone is just starting out. Experienced lifters whose muscles are adapted to heavy training can get away with training the SOME muscle groups every 3-4 days (Chest, Shoulders, Legs, and Back definitely need atleast one week... if your ACTUALLY working out and not f*cking around with b*tch reps and weight).

Now with that being said, if he is going lite on his lifts and using low weight then I can MAYBE see him training the same muscle group again in 3-4 days. But like I said, once his body adapts to that low level of training, more intensity and weight must be added, and when he hits that stage its crucial that he gets his full week of rest until his body adapts to this new phase.

Plus I don't know what his diet and nutrition are lookin like so 1 week is probably a safe choice. Not everyone has the right diet and supplements needed to train a muscle group more than once a week.
GOOD LOOKIN ON THE INSIGHT

IT DEFINITELY DOES DEPEND ON THE TYPE OF WORKOUT, NUTRITION AND ONE'S OWN BODY. I'VE GOTTEN GOOD RESULTS ON MINIMAL REST IN THE PAST, EVEN WITH HIGH-INTENSITY WORKOUTS, BUT...

"You simply grow faster and bigger using this routine."

...MAYBE I'M NOT LIVING UP TO MY POTENTIAL. I'M GONNA TRY TO GET A LITTLE MORE RECOVERY TIME, SEE IF IT'S BENEFICIAL FOR ME

[Typical Doppelganger]

OH YEA, AND I THOUGHT THE THREAD STARTER WAS REFERRING MORE TO REST TIME BETWEEN WORKOUT SESSIONS RATHER THAN SPECIFIC MUSCLE GROUPS

STILL, WASN'T AWARE THAT MUSCLE GROUPS NEEDED SO MUCH RECOVERY TIME

[Big H]

Well like I pointed to, there are too many variables that come into play when your dealing with recovery; genetics, diet, nutrition, sleep, supplements, muscle fiber type, etc. All I'm saying is that 1 week is a safe bet just in case one of these factors are lacking. When you start gettin after it hard, that 1 week of recovery is important. I couldn't do my routine twice in week cuz it would be too punishing on my body; the once-a-week method has kept me gaining and most importantly injury free.

[watergirl442]

about a day i thought
cause once we start relaxing
than its gonna take more days
for a "non-professionals" like me.

so i suppose a day of relaxing is great:)

oh and i strongly believe that a trainer or someone with knowledge
should coach me while i'm in gym
so that i'll get the muscles in the exact areas that i want!!
hope that helped :)

[Shaolin Temple]

As a matter of fact, the answer is alittle more in depth. Some people recover pretty fast, although it's kinda rare. Let's say that you are fully recovered. You haven't lifted in over 1 week for arguments sake. And you bench some weight 15 times before failure, then you go back to benching 5 days later and you lift the same weight 15 times. Then I'd say that your muscles fully recovered. The body does not necessarily follow the calandar that man-made.

However, if you are starting out for the very first time, I wouldn't lift more than 3 times a week, and would rest each muscle group at least 7 days for the first month.

[KnokStaR]

i've never waited more than 72 hours unless i had no choice...

Personally..i think the best amount of time for recovery is 72 hours...lift on monday..hit that group again on thursday..just make sure on your downtime you're taking in a decent amount of protein amd stay up on your vitamins or dietary supplements..

I'll tell you what though..when i FIRST started lifting...and didn't really know much about it...i used to lift the same muscle group like 2 or 3 days in the row..then rest like a day...then go back to the same deal...and i got ripped FAST...i litterally made the decision to get chiseled with about 10 pounds of gained weight sophomore summer....came back as a junior about 10 pounds gained and ripped.....go figure

I remember being at work one day around the time i was doing this...and one of my co-workers grabbed my arm playing around...and he looked at me crazy because my whole arm was overly hard/tight...it was cuz i was hittin them weights every day and overtraining...then i told him how i train and he put me on to game...

Now that i look back..i can't even imagine how i got away with that without getting crazy injured or just plain being so stiffly sore i couldn't do shyt else...but i wasnt

These days..i NEED to rest 48/72 hours..probably because im just hitting way more weight now....