Rest and Muscle Building
“Work the muscle, feed the muscle, rest the muscle!” is the commonly observed motto among most bodybuilders. These are the 3 key elements of bodybuilding.
Many bodybuilding beginners tend to go overboard with their bodybuilding efforts. They want to workout on all the days without taking even a day off in between because they are under the impression that this is the way to a successful muscle building program. However, this is not true.
In bodybuilding, there is no such thing as doing ‘too much practice’ as it can lead to injury and unnecessary complications. You should not over train your muscles beyond their natural capacities in your quest for better muscle growth.
You need to take adequate rest in order to grant your body with the time it needs to grow. However, the amount of rest required to be taken, depends on your age, genetics, and your present health condition. If you are a beginner, you would need to take comparatively longer rest periods in order to acclimatize your body to your demanding workout schedule.
Remember not to exert or workout your muscles at all when they are sore. Usually, the degraded muscles take 5 to 7 days to recover from the strain of weight training. Do not work them during this rest period when the muscle repair, recovery, replenishment and growth are at a peak. Overstraining your muscles during this crucial rest period could halt the recovery process and even cause permanent injury.
When you workout, your muscle fibers get degraded (although the extent and severity of the damage is largely determined by the intensity of your workouts) and undergo a lot of wear and tear. When you take rest, your body goes into a repair phase and directs all the nutrients to the site of the damaged muscles in order to replenish them and facilitate the muscle building process.
However, if you want to workout other parts of your body, and want to use the damaged muscle, you can do so. Because the stress is not directed at the damaged muscle, rather, it is only aiding in the workout.
You can try dividing your muscles into groups and training each group separately using the ‘split training’ technique. For instance, you can workout your chest and legs on one day and back and arms on the next day. Therefore, you are able to devote ample time to the worked out muscles in your body to recuperate and grow.
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