So if rest is what allows muscles to grow bigger and stronger after being broken down, what's stopping me from LITERALLY doing:
>Eat
>Lift
>Protein Shake
>Sleep
And repeat, regardless of how many hours I spend asleep/awake? Like, I'm a semi-rich neet with nothing else to do but lift heavy weights. Wouldn't something like this work instead of following 'muh rest days' and all that?
you could tear a muscle and never lift again
>>40983204
>You could tear a muscle
Well no shit how else would it grow
>>40983191
OP lifting everyday is fine but if you're going to be pushing your body so much at least leave a day or two for body weight routines as sort of a rest day from heavy lifting. I'm also a NEET and I do this.
Bulgarian Method programming is what you're talking about. The key is steroids and a coach that can help you keep injuries minimal.
I study cortisol and sleep amongst latino students.
Am a sleep expert.
Sleep has little to nothing to do with muscular recover. REST has everything to do with muscular recovery. Yes much of your bodies protein synthesis occurs during sleep but not as much as your longer waking cycles.
Sleep is for cognitive recovery. Neuropsychs believe this is when we store, delete and streamline memory and learning.
Also you get diminishing returns on sleeping past 10 hours for youths (8 hours for adults.)
>>40984099
What counts as rest?
If I go for a walk am I still technically resting?
What about if I work manual labour, or do cardio?
>>40984099
Will power-assist robots be useful for gains on rest days so that it takes less effort to move?
>>40984516
Why not cycle steroids properly. That's essentially what they do - nothing more.
>>40984589
>I know all about steroids
>>40983191
During my NEET i visited the gym 5 consequitive days a week 2-2.5 hours a day with the weekend off to do shit like living. Do this and you too will be visited by the gainztrain.
Your muscles won't grow if they have no reason to, idiot. Exercise is the reason for them to grow. If you never need to read a book by not reading, why would you suddenly become literate?