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Weightlifting and Recovery

  • 27-07-2011 8:56pm
    #1
    marathonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭


    I've started doing Starting Strength and was just wondering about recovery.

    It's normally a 3-days per week routing but I was considering doing it every second day - as I've got my home gym set up.

    My question is, is the 2-day rest session once a week of any great benefit or would one day rest periods between sessions be sufficient? I'm not sure if the 2-day periods are there because of physical benefits of 2-day rest periods or convenience of training on the same days every week.


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  • #2
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    Google the phrase YNDTP.


  • #3
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    marathonic wrote: »
    My question is, is the 2-day rest session once a week of any great benefit or would one day rest periods between sessions be sufficient? I'm not sure if the 2-day periods are there because of physical benefits of 2-day rest periods or convenience of training on the same days every week.

    It is.
    It might be, if you sleep and eat enough.
    Can't they be both?


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