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Recovery Anonymous
From my understanding, it's common knowledge that you should let your muscles relax for 48 hours before starting all over again, because if not there'll be some very negative effects I don't quite remember. But I do hear of programs that involves exercising the same muscle group daily, like doing push-ups every day.

So how does it work, exactly? Does it just count if you lift until complete muscle fatigue or something?
>> Ego !ALkmCt2Pww
It depends on how much stress you put on your body.
For example, doing 3 exercise for chest with heavy weights for 3 sets of 5 reps is going to put much greater wear on your muscles then just doing 3 sets of 30 pushups.

The best thing to do is just to listen to your body, if you wake up the day after the chest workout and it feels like you got hit by a train then you should give yourself a minimum of 3 full days rest from anything involving chest. If you wake up feeling fine well then you can consider doing chest again tommorow.
>> Anonymous
The daily regimens are for hardcore types that have been training for years. And even they don't do the same muscle groups every day; they do 4-5 different exercises on one to two muscle groups per day.

So no, no reasonable regimen has you working the same muscle group for more than one day every 48-72 hours.
>> Anonymous
>>32779

How about Army or Marine regimens? I was never in the military, but don't they do push ups like... every 4 hours?
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
I'm not lifting weights, but training with my bodyweight, after around two years of training (without plan) I built up enough to be able to work out daily for a while, of course, you shouldn't strain it, stop after at most two weeks or else you're probably going to over-train and get worse results than before.

Above posters are also right. I always just listen to my body and work those parts that feel like they're good to go. Sometimes, working out sore muscles again also helps to overstrain the muscles, but you need an extra amount of rest afterwards, and need to work out casually so not to rip anything.
You should first have a very good base of muscles before you start doing this shit; even if your main muscles may be fit (yet or again), all those reinforcing and holding muscles in your body and joints get fatigued way more quickly and you mostly don't feel it, and this may result in serious injury.
I recommend doing lots of bodyweight core conditioning before starting a weighted routine, but that's just my opinion. just keep safe.
>> Anonymous
>>32792

Only in Basic Training, and that's usually only for punishment. Even then, when we had a PT test coming up, the drill sergeants would go easy on us the day before.

They'd duck-walk us instead. Fun times.
>> Anonymous
>>32827
Please tell me more about basic.