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Fitness Questions!
Boakai:
Seems like recovery time after a lifting workout is pretty important. What is the correlation between recovery time and muscle soreness? If the soreness goes away can you be considered recovered?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION!!: If you worked a particular area one day and are still recovering from that workout can you work out a different muscle group the next day without worrying about over doing it?
LETS ALL GET IN WILDCAT SHAPE :runaway:
Benja:
I sure hope everybody here takes fish oil. Yum.
Benja:
--- Quote from: Boakai on March 07, 2012, 07:25:21 PM ---Seems like recovery time after a lifting workout is pretty important. What is the correlation between recovery time and muscle soreness? If the soreness goes away can you be considered recovered?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION!!: If you worked a particular area one day and are still recovering from that workout can you work out a different muscle group the next day without worrying about over doing it?
LETS ALL GET IN WILDCAT SHAPE :runaway:
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Recovery time is very important. In fact, you can actually lose muscle gains and/or hurt yourself by lifting too much and/or too often. Many people fail to realize that recovery days should be just as important as your workout days. Muscle soreness is a fairly good indicator of muscle recovery. Soreness is good. Soreness after a week is not so good.
You can definitely set up your workout plans so that you are targeting different muscle on different days. This is how it should be done. You have to be careful, though, to make sure you aren't repeatedly using the same muscles without knowing it. This will nullify your gains by overworking the muscle. An example is doing a bunch of bench press on Monday and then doing shoulder presses and tricep kickbacks on Tuesday. This is going to overwork your triceps because all of those exercises utilize them.
steve dave:
Make me a beginner workout plan for a 32 year old guy who can do 20 pushups who refuses to go to the beefcake free weight area of my gym but wants to get studlier.
Benja:
--- Quote from: steve dave on March 07, 2012, 07:42:28 PM ---Make me a beginner workout plan for a 32 year old guy who can do 20 pushups who refuses to go to the beefcake free weight area of my gym but wants to get studlier.
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Would you be willing to workout at home?
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