Just wanted to hear your thoughts on rest breaks between sets. Personally i dont keep track of rest breaks, and usually start my next set when i feel recovered.
2-5mins, sometimes 10 mins is recommend as it allows for the CNS and ATP stores to fully recover before your next set.
main point im getting at is the importance you place on rest periods, are you a rest period nazi and use a stop watch or are you returning to your set when you run out of things to say the Hot chick on the treadmill? if so why?
I use a stopwatch and go for a 2-3 min rest between sets. I find a minimum of 2 mins is enough for most exercises, sometimes it'll push out to 3 for others. I have found that if I approach 5 minutes and beyond between sets it can have a negative impact on performance.
Using a stopwatch also has a benefit (for me) of creating a consistent time variable with regard to measuring performance - the 3 variables of work being, time, weight and distance (reps).
Fadi might have the correct answer here, but I believe the minimum rest period between Olympic lifts is 2 minutes?
Olympic lifting, try 10 minutes sometimes. You need to replicate a competition enviroment. I've been watch ing the World Championships this week on Foxtel, sometimes it exceeds 10 minutes between attempts.
Train as you play. The minimum rest an Olympic lifter has is 2 minutes between lifts, if you're following yourself. There is no maximum.
Apologies, I didn't pay attention to the location of the thread. I did answer with a bodybuilding mindset.Seeing as this is the STRENGTH side of the forum and not the BODYBUILDING side, I'm going to assume the question was about optimum rest for strength performance improvements.
This has me curious. In one instance you say you should rest as long as you need, in the other you say you need to replicate a competition environment? If the minimum rest period is ruled at 2 minutes, this would mean that an offiical can call you to lift again anytime from 2 minutes after your last lift? Therefore if you condition yourself to have longer rest periods aren't you doing yourself an injustice? You can't say to the official "but at training I get a longer rest"? This isn't my area so you may need to bring me up to speed if I'm missing something?Rest as long as it takes for you to recover. If you fail a lift due to fatigue, your an idiot. This is not true in bodybuilding.
Olympic lifting, try 10 minutes sometimes. You need to replicate a competition enviroment. I've been watch ing the World Championships this week on Foxtel, sometimes it exceeds 10 minutes between attempts.
Train as you play. The minimum rest an Olympic lifter has is 2 minutes between lifts, if you're following yourself. There is no maximum.
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