Weight training recovery question

cafecolour

Are body weight exercises fine to do a day after working a particular muscle group - ie pushups the day after bench press, body weight squats the day after weighted squats?

I know it's fine if I just do like 10 pushups to get the blood flowing. But I try to do as many as fast as possible till I can't anymore. Would this hurt my recovery?

InKonspikuou2

I done them as part of a cardio circuit in between weight training 3 times a week and i think they benefited my bench in terms of explosive strength over the 2 months i done it. Granted in the beginning i could feel it while benching and squating the next day. But after 2 weeks it was fine.

I wouldn't factor it in as a long term thing and going to failure might be a bit excessive. A lot of people will say that it's not enough time for muscle recovery but i suppose it's all relative.

Transform

it will not hurt your recovery that much but i would swap the body weight exericse you do i.e. dips, press ups, chin ups, squats, lunges, back extensions, core work.

Recovery days are also great for doing wayyy more stretching, foam rolling and rehab/prehab work on areas that tend to give people problems e.g. shoulders, hips and knees