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Serious question re lifting.

gonelifting

gonelifting

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I'll move this to the Training board after a while. I want some replies from people here first.

I tried resting only 30 seconds in between sets today and IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. wtf?!?!?!? nO FREAKING WAY DO PEOPLE REALLY DO THAT DURING WORKOUTS.

Shit caps lock, sorry.

I looked at my watch and started with another exactly 30 seconds after the last rep of the set before.

First, I did way lighter weight

and I was breathing way too hard.

Even a minute is short. I like 1-2 minutes if not more. I usually lift heavy, maybe that's why I really felt it. I'd probably want to go with a strict minute rest but I'm too lazy to keep looking at my watch.

And NO you can't time it by "feel". That's why I say it's BS when people say they rest 30 seconds. It's way too short. It's like the snooze button on your alarm clock. "Did 10 minutes really just go by? No fucking way!"
 
yeah, i pretty much power nap between sets. lol, those chicks think i'm doing abs!!!
 
I usually go and grab a sandwich or shamelessly flirt with a 50-something divorcee with implants and collgen injections between sets. I wait 30 seconds after my set to do it though.

Really though, I wait 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes between sets, but it depends how heavy I'm going. I'm horribly out of shape now, so some things get me super winded and fatigued.
 
gonelifting said:
I'll move this to the Training board after a while. I want some replies from people here first.

I tried resting only 30 seconds in between sets today and IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. wtf?!?!?!? nO FREAKING WAY DO PEOPLE REALLY DO THAT DURING WORKOUTS.

Shit caps lock, sorry.

I looked at my watch and started with another exactly 30 seconds after the last rep of the set before.

First, I did way lighter weight

and I was breathing way too hard.

Even a minute is short. I like 1-2 minutes if not more. I usually lift heavy, maybe that's why I really felt it. I'd probably want to go with a strict minute rest but I'm too lazy to keep looking at my watch.

And NO you can't time it by "feel". That's why I say it's BS when people say they rest 30 seconds. It's way too short. It's like the snooze button on your alarm clock. "Did 10 minutes really just go by? No fucking way!"
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we're talking abs here right>?
 
jnevin said:
I usually go and grab a sandwich or shamelessly flirt with a 50-something divorcee with implants and collgen injections between sets. I wait 30 seconds after my set to do it though.

Really though, I wait 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes between sets, but it depends how heavy I'm going. I'm horribly out of shape now, so some things get me super winded and fatigued.
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I've been known to go on alcohol and xanie binges for years between sets. :)
 
lol A the replies that are STILL saying they wait "30 seconds to 1.5 minutes" NO FREAKING WAY is it 30 seconds EVER. NO NO NO WAY. I believe 1 minute or more maybe even 45 seconds but consistantly 30 seconds, NO! I have to see it and time it for the whole workout to believe it.


Not abs you freak! Not circuit training either. If I were still mod, there be bannings on this thread!
 
gonelifting said:
lol A the replies that are STILL saying they wait "30 seconds to 1.5 minutes" NO FREAKING WAY is it 30 seconds EVER. NO NO NO WAY. I believe 1 minute or more maybe even 45 seconds but consistantly 30 seconds, NO! I have to see it and time it for the whole workout to believe it.


Not abs you freak! Not circuit training either. If I were still mod, there be bannings on this thread!
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you were a mod? i must have been sick that day....
 
fuck 30 seconds...
to lift heavy you need more time than that...
more like 2 min. if youre going for lower rep heavy lifts...
if i max out i wait like 3 min...
 
Men's Health reported on a study that said your strength dramatically increases if you rest three minutes between sets. Around 5 minutes, however, you're pretty much as recovered as you are going to get.

For low-rep days, it's the only way to go.
 
i do between 16 and 20 sets in 50-60 minutes, so id say im resting for a couple of minutes between.

only time i ever did the 30 second thing was when i was doing body for life, with a stopwatch around my neck, and it SUCKED. although i got pretty lean.

(wish i knew about dnp back then...you gotta get lean once in your life just so you dont give a shit anymore :D )
 
GoldenDelicious said:
only time i ever did the 30 second thing was when i was doing body for life, with a stopwatch around my neck, and it SUCKED. although i got pretty lean.
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you forgot the one-night-stand with the fatty
 
When I do supersets, usually with bis tris, I rest zero between sets. I curl and lay down and do scull crushers with the same bar. I'm fucking badass.

120 pounds or so.
 
Actually I do this at times. And I mean exactly thirty seconds.

It isn't that hard. First you have to realize that attempting this with low reps is not going to work. The point of the 30 secs rest is not so you can catch your breath but rather to let the lactic acid subside for a bit. You are simply training and then taking a break and then starting back like one long set. The point of it being is to cram as much blood into the muscle as possible. The more blood you force in there, the more the muscle is stretched from within and helps loosen the fascia in order to achieve a better environment that is conducive for muscle growth.
 
AAP said:
Actually I do this at times. And I mean exactly thirty seconds.

It isn't that hard. First you have to realize that attempting this with low reps is not going to work. The point of the 30 secs rest is not so you can catch your breath but rather to let the lactic acid subside for a bit. You are simply training and then taking a break and then starting back like one long set. The point of it being is to cram as much blood into the muscle as possible. The more blood you force in there, the more the muscle is stretched from within and helps loosen the fascia in order to achieve a better environment that is conducive for muscle growth.
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Great fucking post!

I understand the lower weight and higher reps along with the 30 second rest times should be done early on in a training program. Like the first several weeks and then move up in weights and lower reps, increase rest time. That's how I've always understood it. The shorter rest times were strictly for hypertrophy and not strength gains.
 
mrplunkey said:
Men's Health reported on a study that said your strength dramatically increases if you rest three minutes between sets. Around 5 minutes, however, you're pretty much as recovered as you are going to get.

For low-rep days, it's the only way to go.
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The difference between 30sec-1min and 2min is night and day.

I know I lift heavy and intensly and I'm as weak as Alien Amp Pharm right after a set...but give me 2min and I can throw the weight back up again.
 
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