Number of rest days until you hit that muscle again

[Vennom96]

I read the following on bodybuilding.com (http://bodybuilding.com/fun/hst1.htm) and it basically says that once you lift and tear apart your muscles, they are fully healed within 48 hours and ready to be torn apart again. I only do each muscle once a week but I'm curious to see how often everyone else works each muscle and thier opinions on this. Wouldn't that lead to overtraining though by doing a muscle, and then doing it again 3 days later, and then again,etc?


2) Acute vs. Chronic Stimuli
In order for the loading to result in significant hypertrophy, the stimulus must be applied with sufficient frequency to create a new "environment", as opposed to seemingly random and acute assaults on the mechanical integrity of the tissue. The downside of taking a week of rest every time you load a muscle is that many of the acute responses to training like increased protein synthesis, prostaglandins, IGF-1 levels, and mRNA levels all return to normal in about 36 hours. So, you spend 2 days growing and half a week in a semi-anticatabolic state returning to normal (some people call this recovery), when research shows us that recovery can take place unabated even if a the muscle is loaded again in 48 hours. So true anabolism from loading only lasts 2 days at best once the load is removed. The rest of the time you are simply balancing nitrogen retention without adding to it.

 

[tonee]

I never heard something like that before. I also work out each muscle once a week.

 

[tag]

i decided to try HST 2 weeks ago and so far i like it. haven't done it long enuf yet to know if it works really well yet but i guess i will see. i need to read alot more about it though because right now i am not following it exactly as its described. the weights they use seemed way too low so i have adapted it, using weights more like i train with normally on the once per week program but only doing the 2 sets per body part. makes the workout challenging but it feels good when i am done. this has caused me to wonder the same thing, will i become overtrained. nice staying big and only hitting the gym 3 times per week though, i must say.

 

[E-Swift25]

I checked out the workout. It doesn't seem like it's that challenging.

 

[needsize]

once every 6-7 days is all I can handle. I never bought the 48 hours thing, I squatted 48 hours ago and I am still having trouble walking

 

[dznutzxxx]

i work out each muscle twice a week.
day 1 legs/back (all compound excercises) deadlift, squat, pulldowns and or rows, shrugs,
day 2 pressing day. benching, overhead press, tricep work, serratus work, lateral delt work.

its excellent for strength, got my bench going up WAY faster on this routine than just hitting each muscle once a week with more sets.

u go in and workout even though u still have doms, doms doesnt mean shit, if u go and do more benching while u have DOMS ull adapt fast and ull never get them again.

and needsize how many sets are you doing dude? sounds like overkill to me

 

[tonee]

and needsize how many sets are you doing dude? sounds like overkill to me

HaHa I think needsize knows what he's doing bro.. he's been pretty successful.

 

[dznutzxxx]

ya but how many cycles and years of training?

i dont think doing so many sets u cant walk is anymore beneficial then doing 3-4 work sets

 

[Frankie xq]

i like doggcrapping.

 

[Insane_Man]

I train with HST and love it.

 

[needsize]

I am doing 6 work sets, 2 squats, 2 leg press, and 2 hacksquats. This time I set a personal best on the squat, and pushed myself so far that I'm brutally sore. It has nothing to do with # of work sets, its intensity.

I have over 12 years of training and almost 3 years of cycles

 

[EZstreet]

Would it be a flame to post to dznutzx that explains a lot with the way his pix look(I' mean the forearm you could see with the one fat handle)?
All of 9 months of training and knows it all.....Maybe dznutzx should try taking someone else's advice who knows what the hell they're doing?maybe????

 

[jarbulldog]

i hit my muscles every 4th then fifth day. i do chest tris and 25 minutes of cardio, shoulders trapps 25 mintues of cardio, legs, back bi's and 25 minutes cardio. then i do day 1 and 2 again, and then take a day off. the next week i start where i left off.