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>>29587 You can easily overtrain working a single muscle multiple times a week. You can overtrain working a muscle once a month. For example, I can do about 5 chinups in a row. One day as part of my workout, I did 50 chinups broken into sets of 5. After the third set I couldn't do any more full chinups, and did negatives for the remaining 7 sets. After this I literally was unable to do one complete chinup for a month.
This was stupid; one should NEVER attempt to do full effort on a new exercise. Partial effort should be used, so recovery time can be properly assessed afterwards. If recovery time was too short, add more intensity next time. If recovery time was too long, reduce the intensity.
That 72 hours shit is not appropriate for any arbitrary amount of work done on muscles; more work needs more rest. You should rest until your muscles feel fully recovered. There's no need to do another workout if you haven't recovered from your last one. All that said, I can understand why 72 hours has become a common timelimit; it's likely that anyone who has been training regularly for at least a couple months would have such a maximum recovery time.
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