How to Build Muscle Faster with Proper RECOVERY After Workout ➡ Muscle Recovery Tips | Soreness Pain
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Learn how to build muscle faster with proper recovery. Recover after a workout without overtraining.
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Whether your lifting weights, playing a sport, or training with your body weight the working out portion of the process is very important to develop your muscles and to increase your strength. There really is no other method quite as effective as exercising to achieve your physical goals. However most people don’t fully understand and appreciate just how important recovery is, in this process. So, In this video I’m going to go over the importance of recovery, how long you should recover for, and how you can speed up your recovery. Let’s start by talking about one of the most major reasons why recovery is so important. When you workout, whether you’re lifting weights, playing soccer, or doing push-ups your going to breakdown muscle tissue in the process. This might sound like a bad thing but it’s actually totally okay. We’re not talking about full out muscle tears, but instead tiny microscopic tears in the muscle. These tears are what will end up leading to an increase in our muscles size, strength, and functionality. However the tears themselves are not what leads to all these improvements. In fact a worn out beaten up muscle is usually less capable than it would be fully healed. So the critical time for growing and strengthening your muscles is when you’re out of the gym resting, not during your workout.
When you recover from a workout it takes some time to repair all those microscopic tears. Exactly how much time varies from person to person and is also dependent on how intense your workout was. For example in a low-intensity workout such as jogging at a steady pace you’re not going to need quite as long to recover and some people can be ready to go for another run within 24 hours. On the other hand if you do a power lifting workout it could take you anywhere from 72 hours all the way to a full week to recover fully, especially from heavy exercises involving large muscles groups like squats. In general when using weights it is recommended that you take at least 48 hours off before working the same muscle group again. So you can go and workout the next day, but just try to work on a different muscle group. Another factor that influences how long it takes you to recover is the style of the workout. Does the workout involve a lot of eccentric lifting where you’re slowing the weight down or is it mostly concentric where you are accelerating the weight. If you’re doing mostly concentric exercises where you drop the weight such as Olympic lifters or many crossfitters then recovery is faster. Bodybuilders and power lifters would be categorized as doing more eccentric lifts so they may take longer to recover… And the last factor that effects recovery time, is age. If you’re older you’re going to have a tougher time recovering than if you’re younger, and you may need more time off.
Keep in mind that you regardless of your age your muscles aren’t the only thing that need time to recover. Your connective tissue such as tendons and ligaments need time to recover as well. The thing about tendons and ligaments is that you may not even feel sore, but that doesn’t mean that they are fully recovered. Especially because tendons and ligaments receive less blood than the muscles so it takes them longer to fully repair. Therefore, do not base whether you need time to recover or not only on soreness because it’s not the best indicator. It’s important to also realize that when training intensely you have to worry about your nervous system recovering as well. If you do an extremely intense leg workout and then the next day do an extremely intense upper body workout, you may not be at your best for your second workout. Even though you are working different muscles, doing a high intensity workout will take a toll on your nervous system. Chances are high that it won’t be ready to go all out for another intense workout the next day. Your CNS or central nervous system is responsible for generating muscular contractions in all types of training, so when you stack workout upon workout, eventually it can tire out. To help your central nervous system fully recover it may be a good idea to not only take a day off between working the same muscle groups again, but instead to just take a day or two off in general. This will allow your body to fully recover. I’ve been surprised so many times when I would take a few days off of working out and come back even stronger. This definitely had to do with my nervous system finally being allowed to fully recover.
