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how many days between each workout

gurveer Posts: 5 Joined: 2001/05/21	2001/05/26, 01:12 PM I work out regularly and my goal is to really increase muscle mass. I read somewhere that its important to give 48 hours of rest to the particular muscle your working on between workouts. but if im doing shoulders today and arms tomorrow, does it mean i have to do shoulders again day after? Should the rest be for the entire body or is it ok to give rest to one particular muscle while continuing to work on the other muscles
mongrel2012 Posts: 125 Joined: 2001/05/04	2001/05/26, 10:45 PM maybe you should sign up for the Max Muscle Mass plan. This will give you a good idea of how much rest is needed for hypertrophy
skylar Posts: 156 Joined: 2001/01/29	2001/05/27, 09:44 PM Nowadays you need to train any body part only once a week to gain muscle. It will be your intensity in training that will help decide your gains. Yea check out the Mass program here and try to be religious about your training each week and eat to gain.
Uttiya Posts: 199 Joined: 2001/02/22	2001/05/28, 02:07 AM Well, its 24 hours rest between 2 workouts, and atleast 4 to 5 days between working out the same bodypart.But it is not possible to have a schedule like that. my routine is packed thru out the week...: day 1)Legs(complete) day 2)traps+bicep day 3)chest+lats day 4)bicep+tricep day 5)traps+lats(full back) day 6)chest+legs Or tricep day 7)rest
mongrel2012 Posts: 125 Joined: 2001/05/04	2001/05/29, 03:30 AM woah... u have really good recovery for someone who isn't on the juice. Theres no way I could train myself that much. Like on day 6, my lats would be sore from the day before, and I couldn't bench much at all..
jpcorrao Posts: 117 Joined: 2001/02/12	2001/05/30, 07:51 AM it depends on the program. have ft set up a program for you
tt_rocker Posts: 389 Joined: 2001/01/25	2001/05/30, 02:03 PM in FT you get 6 days rest for each body part..generally your muscles need about 36 hours of recovery time..especially if your lifting heavy