How Do Rest Days Work In Exercising?

Usually a rest day means to do nothing and completely rest. Some people like to do some stretching on rest days or some cardio or maybe even go for a walk. I personally think stretching is a good thing to do on rest days but yeah doing nothing is fine.

 

No.

How you rest is largely dependent on the regimen you're working off of. For example, I do a lighter legs day on Monday, Tuesday is chest, Wednesday is heavy legs and back, Thursday is arms and shoulders and Friday is a lighter back day. I also do 30 minutes of cardio following every workout, in my case I am using incline treadmill walking, which is a higher caloric burn than running while also being lower impact - I used to run three days a week after lifting and this is much more palatable.

My schedule works for me because I don't exercise the same muscle groups two days in a row. If you are doing something more full body in a workout session where you're working multiple muscle groups, then you would likely not want to lift every single day. Muscle is built during the recovery period (that's a vastly oversimplified statement but sufficient for our purposes) and rest is crucial to building strength and muscle, hence my program.

 

OK. Guess i know nothing you can clearly see from my picture that i have made gains and what i said works for me you idiot.
People like you make me cringe, A lighter back day and a heavy back day?? are you actually joking lol, please tell me you are joking.

 

Keep doing nothing on your rest days, sweetie, let me know how that works out for you.

 

so you will sit here and tell me that not doing any exercise on rest day will prevent you from building muscle when i have done that from my own experience and built muscle lol? you joker.

 

Yep, it's that simple. Rest days are literally rest days, no exercise. Your muscles need about 48 hours to grow and recover once you've exercised them intensely. This is why a lot of people (myself included) do splits. Focusing on different muscle groups everyday means we can skip rest days and lift for 5 days a week. And you can do light cardio everyday whether you workout or not. It's actually beneficial. But all of this really depends on what your goals are and your current body state.

PM me if you need help. Always happy to help!

DS.

 

Nah, I'm not gonna tell you anything, you clearly know it all.

 

You're kind of over complicating things, there's really no real way to do anything in fitness, it's all down to your personal preference.If you are eating enough calories, getting enough sleep and rest and lifting weights properly you will build muscle.
If you want to do cardio on a rest day that's fine, if you wanna do it after a lifting session that's fine too most people would probably be too tired to that but again it's all up to you. I kind of don't really understand what you are asking?

 

I suggest sleep 1 hour more after an exercise day.

 

I was so eager to reply to your post since I really enjoy talking about dieting, training, nutrition and other aspects of lifting, but your attitude towards someone who was trying to help you is very distasteful. In the meantime, learn some manners while you enjoy your noob gains lol. And once you've reached a plateau and decide to come here asking for help again, have some more respect and perhaps you'll get some more responses from other people in this community.

 

I go by the rule of thumb "no work out program will help you if you don't have the diet to match it".

I have the tendency, more often than not, to suffer from too little training and too much rest, so I'm beginning to incorporate an hour of cardio every day except for weight training days. There is an element of cardio in resistance training if you're exerting yourself hard enough and the hormonal benefits are helpful as well. I think the rest concern should only be if you feel that post-work out "knock out", BUT, the scientific literature says 48 hours to full recovery of muscle tissue.

 

@Joseph_Merrick Have you not actually read this thread you idiot? i gave the OP advice and some other guy completely dismissed it and said i was wrong and somehow i am rude , i didn't ask anyone for advice you fucking dumb prick lol , are you actually serious?

Noob gains? Ok then, i somehow think that from going from a skinny ectomorph to gaining 3 stone of weight isn't noob gains.

Oh and by the way why don't you try reading the thread before you post to stop you from making yourself look like an idiot.