Recovery

There are two portions to recovery. There is recovery during sets, and recovery after training. In between sets, you should be spending between one minute and two minutes to recover. Any longer and you’re training for strength what we are trying to achieve is maintaining bloodflow to the muscle, and keeping our pump. By pushing to this intensity, you will notice your strength dropping set after set, but ultimately you will be achieving more and more stimulation to the muscle. 

Recovery outside of the gym is incredibly important also. You need to be sleeping a minimum of 8 hours a night, and aiming for at least 10. You dont grow in the gym,you grow while you’re sleeping. You also need to give your muscles on average an entire week to recover from a workout, but you’ll see later on how this is managed by having a good workout cycle. A lack of recovery leads to improper healing, and eventually to overtraining. This is crucial in injury prevention as an injury will hinder your fitness goals and it is important to avoid high-risk situations. 

In the Youtube clip below, Elliott Hulse addresses the issue of recovery from muscle soreness:

              

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG8k3NB_K20