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Anonymous
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I heard somewhere that every 6 weeks you should take a week off for rest. This means that on the 7'th week you take off right? As of now i'm trying to catch up my left arm (bi's and tri's) to the strength and size of my right arm. I havn't purposely worked out my right arm in a couple of weeks, but i've noticed its gotten even bigger with the time off i've given it. So i assume i should give my left off a week or two off to rebuild and hopefully catch up?
>> Anonymous
That's a pretty long macrocycle, but no not complete rest, just very low loads.

You should only isolate your arms if they're completely asymmetrical
>> Anonymous
why are you taking time off?

Sounds like you are not giving enough time for your muscles to develope during your routines. Maybe eat more protein or something.
>> RSI guy !HjbWRiSTJ.
>>64186
i heard something about macrocycles being really really good, but i don't know jack about them.
>> Anonymous
Macrocycles and microcycles are basically schedules of rest designed for the body so overall performance improves. Like how if you're cutting down trees with a single ax, it's better to stop every time the ax starts getting blunt and sharpening it versus chopping the tree forever.

A typical mmicrocycle lasts 7-8 days, and goes llike this:

day 1: 50% load
day 2: 60% load
day 3: 70% load
day 4: 60% load
day 5: 70% load
day 6: 80% load
day 7: 40% load

And that's juts one muscle group. You can superimpose a second schedule of different loads on the first one for a different muscle. That's a tenet of the Periodization system that some bodybuilders use.
>> Anonymous
It's good to take a rest from lifting to give your tendons and a ligaments some time off. They take longer to recover and strengthen than muscles. But every 6 weeks is for serious athletes or bodybuilders, I think if you're just doing it for recreation, once every 10 weeks is more like it.