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To give your muscles enough time to repair themselves.

Muscle tissue is torn slighty during resistance training (this is how muscles get bigger), so they need time to repair.

Nothing stopping you doing cardio however
Reply 2
You take 1-2 days off to rest your muscles, if you overdo it you may get tendonitis or something similar, or strain muscles, then it will take a long period of time to get those muscles working again to how they used to.
Do some cardio on your rest days - heavy bag work, cycling, swimming etc. Try to avoid high impact stuff like running if you've been working your legs.
Recovery times of course can be improved with suplementing your diet with a whey protein shake directly after weight training :smile:
Reply 5
depends how youre training too dude, you could get away with doing the same exercise for like 5 days a week if youre staying away from any fatigue in each workout
Reply 6
rock_tenth
depends how youre training too dude, you could get away with doing the same exercise for like 5 days a week if youre staying away from any fatigue in each workout

Thats preety pointless. If you work the muscle this little/sesh, you will not be causing enough strain to damage the muscle fibres, allowing it to grow, but anyway you would not even give the muscle enough time to rest doing it this many times a week, so it couldnt recover/grow even if you had worked it sufficiently. If you are very lucky, you will make minute gains in that muscle and still would have wasted all of that time and effort which could have been spent of working other muscles.
Reply 7
oh then,I don't want to bulk up like some women they look ugly just want a better shape,oh how long does it take to show ,oh and by the way how many calories should I eat if I burn about 300 cals in a cardio session a day with out adding cals burned in weight training???
Reply 8
Lil_J
Thats preety pointless. If you work the muscle this little/sesh, you will not be causing enough strain to damage the muscle fibres, allowing it to grow, but anyway you would not even give the muscle enough time to rest doing it this many times a week, so it couldnt recover/grow even if you had worked it sufficiently. If you are very lucky, you will make minute gains in that muscle and still would have wasted all of that time and effort which could have been spent of working other muscles.


I didnt claim it would let you grow dude, but such high frequency training is ofton employed by olympic lifters, where the events are technique-heavy - Treating lifting as "practice". Frequent lifting, avoiding muscle fatigue, is generaly accepted as being leet for strength
Reply 9
Weight lifters periodize though, they spend most of the year training to increase strength and power, and then the period before competition practicin mostly, whilst still working on their max strength and power.
Reply 10
dudes, she's not a body builder!