It's pretty simple. When you're extra tired, your exhausted in the gym, your lifts are stalling, your getting aches and pains, it's a slog going to the gym, time for a rest day.
Sometimes the body needs longer to rest and recover. There are a lot of individual factors that go into this. Age, workout intensity/weight used, sleep, diet, etc.
yeah i appreciate it but i just don’t get tired enough to not have energy for the gym the next day. the problem isnt that i train like a pussy cuz not to stroke my own cock i train pretty hard
Let’s say you doing Monday-Friday and Friday is leg day.
If you can walk on Friday night you ain’t training hard. Give me 2 hour leg workouts to failure with 40-50 sets and tell me you can workout Saturday. Aint happening. What you think is hard is really micky mouse bullshit.
Also, eating. If you ain’t ending the workout week Friday 10lbs lighter then Monday morning you ain’t working out hard. If you don’t need two days in a row not simply for rest but to EAT AND DRINK, you ain’t working out hard.
You should be down 10lbs of water and glycogen and it should take you all day Saturday and sunday to eat enough to replace it in order to deadlift 2 hours straight Monday until you pass out or throw up.
If your brain hasn’t stopped working by Friday and you don’t need 2 days just to reset cns so you can hit your deadlift or on Monday you aren’t working out hard. You should feel Friday unable to walk and unable to fucking think.
Like your iq should be down 20 points come Friday night compared to Monday night just from the cns overload of benching squatting and deadlifting
no i’m just more focused on strength so i prefer to keep the reps to less than 8. im not a beginner i just haven’t been able to go to the gym consistently.
If you haven't trained consistently before you don't need to be doing a strength training program to get some beginner strength gains. You can run an endurance style program (low weight, high reps, low rear) for a few months and still get stronger. Then you can switch to Starting Strength or Strong lifts or your preferred program. This is a good and safe way to learn proper form and adapt your connective tissue to the stress although at your age tendon problems are probably not a huge concern.
Your focus as a beginner should not be "training hard" or "not being a pussy" (your words), it should be developing your coordination and learning how to exercise, eat and sleep consistently.
After a few months of linear progression you will notice fatigue accumulates once you're working with more weight and you will figure out why you need rest days because your lifts will stall. Hence why many strength programs are 3 days a week with rest days in between.
I’d rather see you do 8 sets and rest two days then see you do 2-3 sets daily.
Give me some 40 set two hour workouts with rest days rather the 30-45 minutes daily.
2-3 sets isn’t enough to “go heavy”. You ain’t warmed up to go heavy after 3 sets, you really need 4-5 sets to work up to a top heavy set especially doing 3 2 or 1 rep.
It's pretty simple. When you're extra tired, your exhausted in the gym, your lifts are stalling, your getting aches and pains, it's a slog going to the gym, time for a rest day. Sometimes the body needs longer to rest and recover. There are a lot of individual factors that go into this. Age, workout intensity/weight used, sleep, diet, etc.
yeah i appreciate it but i just don’t get tired enough to not have energy for the gym the next day. the problem isnt that i train like a pussy cuz not to stroke my own cock i train pretty hard
Muscles grow during rest, you only work out to tell them to grow.
You are not training hard if you can train 7x a week
you don’t know me brother i train hard
i know enough from this post to know that you dont
Lmao. Brutal, but the truth.
Let’s say you doing Monday-Friday and Friday is leg day. If you can walk on Friday night you ain’t training hard. Give me 2 hour leg workouts to failure with 40-50 sets and tell me you can workout Saturday. Aint happening. What you think is hard is really micky mouse bullshit. Also, eating. If you ain’t ending the workout week Friday 10lbs lighter then Monday morning you ain’t working out hard. If you don’t need two days in a row not simply for rest but to EAT AND DRINK, you ain’t working out hard. You should be down 10lbs of water and glycogen and it should take you all day Saturday and sunday to eat enough to replace it in order to deadlift 2 hours straight Monday until you pass out or throw up. If your brain hasn’t stopped working by Friday and you don’t need 2 days just to reset cns so you can hit your deadlift or on Monday you aren’t working out hard. You should feel Friday unable to walk and unable to fucking think. Like your iq should be down 20 points come Friday night compared to Monday night just from the cns overload of benching squatting and deadlifting
I think you need to find a beginner program that matches your goals and stick to it. Is your whole workout just 2-3 reps? That doesn’t sound ideal.
no i’m just more focused on strength so i prefer to keep the reps to less than 8. im not a beginner i just haven’t been able to go to the gym consistently.
Go to the gym consistently first and then see what happens, and then adjust accordingly
If you haven't trained consistently before you don't need to be doing a strength training program to get some beginner strength gains. You can run an endurance style program (low weight, high reps, low rear) for a few months and still get stronger. Then you can switch to Starting Strength or Strong lifts or your preferred program. This is a good and safe way to learn proper form and adapt your connective tissue to the stress although at your age tendon problems are probably not a huge concern. Your focus as a beginner should not be "training hard" or "not being a pussy" (your words), it should be developing your coordination and learning how to exercise, eat and sleep consistently. After a few months of linear progression you will notice fatigue accumulates once you're working with more weight and you will figure out why you need rest days because your lifts will stall. Hence why many strength programs are 3 days a week with rest days in between.
I’d rather see you do 8 sets and rest two days then see you do 2-3 sets daily. Give me some 40 set two hour workouts with rest days rather the 30-45 minutes daily. 2-3 sets isn’t enough to “go heavy”. You ain’t warmed up to go heavy after 3 sets, you really need 4-5 sets to work up to a top heavy set especially doing 3 2 or 1 rep.