Muscle Recovery: How Long Should You Rest Between Workouts?

"How often to train biceps?" Answers in this video: -5 to 7 days rest -72 hours rest -3x per week

I do legs every 7 to 8…. Years or so

I don’t skip leg day, I just give them years to recover for maximum growth

The dude‘s 50 and coasting on TRT and looking great. He did right man.

Met him in Miami the year before he won Mr. O. Rest was his #1 recommendation regarding building muscle. To paraphrase him “you’ll be surprised at how many people never reach their potential because they won’t do something as simple as rest”. Classy dude…

Recovery is very important i give my legs at least 2 months of recovery after i train them

"recovery is when the muscle is growing." That's all I needed to hear

If you don't annihilate your muscles, you can train 3 times per week. Pick two exercises for body part, do 5 sets for each, and that's it.

rest is essential for the muscle, i mostly give my legs about 19 years rest since april of 2023.

Training for 58 yrs now. At 72 what works for me is once a week per body part. Still hold a Tx USPA record. Lost national record unfortunately. Jay you are so helpful I've followed for many years!

I had been doing full body for 6 days a week to cut weight, then started doing individual muscle groups once I dropped my weight. The hardest part was forcing myself to take days off but once I did I started seeing the gains I was looking for.

Regular dudes be watching this going “I need to rest”. People forget how hard he trains

He rested 5+ days because his workouts were otherworldly.

I now know why I got strong when I didn't go to the gym for a week. I was so confused

Rest is a major key to this man’s longevity.

Most people are severely under recovered and hurting their gains. Without question the absolute best gains I ever saw came from working each muscle group only once per week. I don't understand how you can assign a time frame like that for recovery when it takes twice as long in your forties and fifties as it did in your twenties. Also in my opinion one of the best things you can do is take an entire week off every couple months. I have seen exceptional results from doing that myself. "No one ever built an ounce of muscle in the gym." -Schwarzenegger

Rest and recovery with proper nutrition are things I always put alot of stock in. I'm 56 and have trained for 40 yrs. One learns and im still learning to this day. Really enjoyed this short video Jay. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

Great advice. I didn’t start growing my muscles until I began to only working them out once a week

When I was weights training in my early 20s I only went to the gym three times per week and was in their each time for about 35-45 minutes. I received many compliments at how much faster I was growing than most others. I placed a huge emphasis on recovery vs how long I can spend in the gym each week. I think this guy is saying something similar.

Definitely right answer, it's never black and white when coming to exercise. Always working in the gray area and experimenting