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I’m going to go over each.įirst things first, lets look at what training for maximum strength looks like. So rest periods are important because you need different amounts depending on what you’re trying to achieve, whether it be max strength, muscle growth, power or endurance. So if you’re that dude who is going to failure each set and taking minimal rest periods, you might want to re-think your strategy depending on your goals. So we can clearly see a case for resting for more or less time depending on the work done. Who is going to recover quicker? Easy isn’t it, Mike, because the intensity is lower, the movement is using fewer muscles and therefore the exercise is less fatiguing. Linda who is squatting to a 5 rep maximum. Take Mike, he is doing preacher curls, going pretty hard but not to failure vs. However, it is more complicated than that, different exercises put contrasting demands on our energy systems, muscles, neuromuscular systems, and therefore our ability to recover from them differs. I mean it’s pretty obvious, we need it so we can do more work after, we cannot just complete rep after rep forever (although some people seem to think they can). To answer why you might time your rest periods we first need to know why we need rest in the first place.

But, I have been in the trenches long enough personally to know sometimes I need more than 2 minutes rest, and this is backed up through what I have read and seen with my clients. The Importance of Rest Times SummarisedĪs a personal trainer part of my course covered rest times, and my organisation and others seem to recommend between 30-120 seconds rest between sets.