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Is there anything wrong with really long rest times?
I have a home gym in my living room, and I'm doing SL5x5. I tend to take upwards of 15-25 minute breaks between my squats, and then 5-10 minutes between all my other exercises
Is this an issue? It's not a waste of time for me because I just read or continue doing whatever else I'm doing between sets, since it's a home gym
Am I missing out on some aspect of gains by taking super long rest breaks?
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>>41700855
>I tend to take upwards of 15-25 minute breaks between my squats
Hoooooooooooooly shit, anon do you even know what a pump feels like?
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>>41700911
Pump feels good, can confirm.
T. Skinnyfat doing 22 day Extinction
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>>41700911
If I don't do it, I get really bad pain in my knees and hip joints. Maybe I'm lifting above my safe maxes, I don't know. But I'm making good gains with not many deloads.
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If it works for you I guess I don't see the problem. The ideal rest time between sets is 3-5 minutes. I'd have a hard time staying motivated waiting longer but to each his own.
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> Too much rest
Put some effort in fatty. It won't kill you.
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Yes, that's way too long. The more you rest between sets, the easier it is. If you're working a high intensity (ie, 1 rep maxes), then 2-5 minute recovery between sets might make sense (never personally done that type of training). If you're working higher volume, moderate intensity for hypertrophy, then 30-90 seconds is normal. You can increase the difficulty by resting as little as possible between sets, or do agonist pairs, ie a set of bench followed immediately by a set of latpull down, then immediately back into benching, etc; so that you rest one group of muscle, while working the opposite.
You're missing out on a lot of gains with long rest periods.
Also, even though you didn't ask, there's also optimal times for completing reps. Many do their reps too quickly, missing out on TUT, which is time under tension.
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>>41700993
Shit...
So should I deload my weights a lot, like 30%, and start from scratch with short rest periods?
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>>41701049
Try cutting your rest time down and listen to your body as far as the deload goes. You're resting so long that you might actually be able to lift more by going to 5 minute rest intervals.
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>>41700855
It depends on your goal. If you are making good strength gains and that's your goal then continue what your doing. If you want more mass and endurance lower the weight and rest times
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>>41700855
Lol never realized how that money must mean almost nothing to a billionaire
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>>41701124
>>41700993
Source : my ass
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