Muscle Toning and Relaxation period

[Hugonium]

Hello all

This website's been EXTREMELY useful and I'm feeling much better about body. I've been doing a bit of cardio and weights every 2 days and I'm wondering about one thing.

The site says that 'the rule of the thumb is to relax your muscles for at least 48 hours until the next workout'.

Now, when I do weights and workout, of course muscles get sore for the rest of the day, but in the next 24 hours they feel good as new.

Is it that I should workout whenever muscles are READY or is it necessary to wait for another 2 days until next routine? I'm very eager to lose a bit more weight and rip some muscles here and there, and I want to workout as much as possible without overdoing it.

Much appreciation in advance,

Dennis

[Boss Man]

Depends. If you're a beginner, 3 sessions a week is optimal, but if you're someone doing 2 differing weight training sessions, 2x a week, you can do a 48 hour period inbetween, but having 4 weights sessions a week, means you can't keep the sessions, to the same day every week, as you're having an even number of sessions, in an odd number of days.

So whatever you do on a Monday say, means next Monday you'll either do something else, or nothing.

So if you do something like this.

Day 1 Weights

Day 2 Weights

Day 3 No weights

Day 4 Weights

Day 5 No weights

Day 6 Weights

Day 7 No weights

That is what you might have to do with a 4 session system, but realistically the two back to back days won't be a real problem.

[Hugonium]

I'm typically doing similar to same routines every two days for about a week, but they consist of about 20 minutes of hard cardio and about 40-50 minutes of weights for the whole body (arms, legs, chest, abs, the works).

I feel like I can do this every singly day but I'm just wondering if I'm overworking muscles to the point that routine is putting no effect on its growth and strengthening. I REALLY want to do this everyday.

[swanso5]

if your still feeling good the day after than you need to:

1 - go heavier
2 - change your sets/reps
3 - change exercises
4 - all of the above

you say you could do it the next day so you probably ahve plateued on this program and you need another one

you can always go toan upper / lower body split which will have you training 4/week every 2nd day just about

i suggest The Waterbury Method

you can't train everyday...correction, you can't train the same way everyday...well nt if you want to build strength and muscle

[Hugonium]

Okay doke . Thanks a lot for the help !!

[Hugonium]

Just a quick update!

I upped weights, increasing it by 15 lbs. and muscles are still sore from yesterday's workout. Seemed that the weights I used before were MUCH too light for me. If any of you were having the game problem I had, just follow swanso5's advice above and it'll do.

Again, thanks for the help .