Often times in the gym I will see young skinny guys, who just joined, coming into the gym every single day and literally working there buts off in an effort to gain muscle mass.
Usually they come in every day and do the same exercises. They don’t understand that the guys that are already big, and workout everyday, only work specific muscle groups about twice a week.
They do this because it is not the workout that makes you gain muscle but the recovery from the workload. You are telling your body to get used to a heavier workload.
If you workout the same muscles every single day you may gain some endurance, but you will not gain size or much strength. If fact you may actually lose muscle mass because you are constantly tearing the muscle down, eventually you may even cause an injury.
For someone new to lifting even doing the same exercises three days a week with rest in-between may be to much.
It’s important as a lifter to know when you are totally recovered from your previous routine before you work the same muscle group.
For instance if you do a heavy chest routine and Monday and then on Wednesday your chest muscles are sore and or you find it difficult to approach your peak weight, then you are not fully recovered.
If there has been ample recovery time, and you are not new to weights, then you should look into improving your diet and making sure you are sleeping right.
If you do not allow yourself to recover between workouts then you will simply be lifting for nothing.
Different people have different recovery spans. A young guy who is 20 will recover much quicker than someone who is 40, things like diet and rest all being equal.
Also, as you happen to gain more muscle the recovery time becomes longer as you now have more muscle to recover.
This is why someone who is very skinny will see quick gains early on and at some time will usually seem to peak, unless they start to readjust their routine to their new size.
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