Resting periods

[edjee]

I never really paid attention to resting periods between sets or exercises when lifting. I did some reading this morning for 5x5 reviews and came upon 3 minutes between sets for strength and 1.5 or less for mass?
3 5x5 lifts for strength = 45 mins of rest total
which is a lot of time for me.
How detrimental is keeping precise resting periods between sets/exercises?

Thanks in advance for your input:wink:

 

[TheeFaulted]

You just need to rest enough to fully recover. I don't time my rest periods, but I know they are sometimes greater than 5 minutes.

 

[Keosawa]

It depends. For heavy max-effort (90%+ training), a lot of coaches/lifters feel that you should take as much time as is necessary. Many say three minutes, tops, should be used for training in the 75-90% range, but others (like Dave Tate, I think) say you should take as much time as is necessary.

Dynamic effort training, if you do it, is an entirely different story, and you really have to pay careful attention to your rest intervals, which should be ninety seconds at the very most.

My rule, in general, is this: for heavy, max-effort compound movements, I take as much time as I need. For all other assistance work, I take the least amount of time as is necessary. For dynamic effort work, I take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds (we actually "wave" these rest intervals in our training, depending on how we feel that particular day) between lifts, whether I feel ready or not.

 

[Cratos]

My rule, in general, is this: for heavy, max-effort compound movements, I take as much time as I need. For all other assistance work, I take the least amount of time as is necessary.

This.

Main lifts: As much time as necessary, within reason.

Assistance lifts: Hit what I need to and gtfo of the gym.

 

[cXs808]

I never really paid attention to resting periods between sets or exercises when lifting. I did some reading this morning for 5x5 reviews and came upon 3 minutes between sets for strength and 1.5 or less for mass?
3 5x5 lifts for strength = 45 mins of rest total
which is a lot of time for me.
How detrimental is keeping precise resting periods between sets/exercises?

Thanks in advance for your input:wink:

How did you get 45 minutes?

5 sets * 3 minutes rest between each set = 15 minutes rest total

 

[Gingervitis]

How did you get 45 minutes?

5 sets * 3 minutes rest between each set = 15 minutes rest total

He took the combined total from 3 exercises, at least that's how I read it.

3 5x5 lifts for strength = 45 mins of rest total

 

[LegioTitan]

As a general rule I go with less than 2 minutes between fast lifts and as much as you need, within reason, for squats.

Its a pretty individual thing though. Just play around with it and see what works best for you.

 

[edjee]

Right on! thanks for the advice!

 

[Eric Brown]

It depends. For heavy max-effort (90%+ training), a lot of coaches/lifters feel that you should take as much time as is necessary. Many say three minutes, tops, should be used for training in the 75-90% range, but others (like Dave Tate, I think) say you should take as much time as is necessary.

Dynamic effort training, if you do it, is an entirely different story, and you really have to pay careful attention to your rest intervals, which should be ninety seconds at the very most.

My rule, in general, is this: for heavy, max-effort compound movements, I take as much time as I need. For all other assistance work, I take the least amount of time as is necessary. For dynamic effort work, I take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds (we actually "wave" these rest intervals in our training, depending on how we feel that particular day) between lifts, whether I feel ready or not.

Agree completely, particularly on the max effort. If it takes, well, whatever, to get maximal effort, including longer time than I would normally like, well, the goal of a max effort day is max effort, not in and out of the gym in less time that it takes a duck to fuck.

 

[miaou]

Dynamic effort training, if you do it, is an entirely different story, and you really have to pay careful attention to your rest intervals, which should be ninety seconds at the very most.

Why?

 

[Keosawa]

Why?

The hell if I know. Seriously: the best answer I can give you is that that's the way it has always been done, and that doing it in this way has produced results (the question, of course, is whether those "results" have anything whatsoever to do with strict rest intervals). I'm not even going to attempt to give a more sophisticated answer, because it would be a bunch of bullshit on my part.

 

[LegioTitan]

The hell if I know. Seriously: the best answer I can give you is that that's the way it has always been done, and that doing it in this way has produced results (the question, of course, is whether those "results" have anything whatsoever to do with strict rest intervals). I'm not even going to attempt to give a more sophisticated answer, because it would be a bunch of bullshit on my part.

A wise man is evident in his ability to admit ignorance.

 

[miaou]

The hell if I know. Seriously: the best answer I can give you is that that's the way it has always been done, and that doing it in this way has produced results (the question, of course, is whether those "results" have anything whatsoever to do with strict rest intervals). I'm not even going to attempt to give a more sophisticated answer, because it would be a bunch of bullshit on my part.

Ηahaha :icon_lol: I respect this answer.

I've read Louie's stuff and I haven't found a convincing explanation on this point. Since the target of the DE work is explosiveness and type-II fibers, I would think that taking a bit longer of a break wouldn't really hurt, whereas taking too short of a break would (since it would change the focus towards slower fibers).

For DE, I would imagine the rule of thumb could be to take as short of a break you want, as long as the reps are not slowing down considerably from one set to the next for your planned number of sets.

 

[Bedlam]

I thought for speed and max effort you took as much time as needed to give the CNS time to recover. For hypertrophy you limit the rest periods, minute and a half at most, to tire out all of the muscle fibres.

For specific energy system training you'd have a variety of rest periods but I'm not really sure on all that.

Edit:
I guess you could add skill training (this is a MMA forum) to the rest as much as you need group.