should i take a rest day between workouts?

Question

because i lift for 1.30 minutes a day i have for a week and a half now today i am so tired but have gotten plenty of rest what is wrong

Answer 1

One day cardio, one day weights.
You see, you can work out your red muscle with cardio. Then weights to get your white muscle going.
In fact Edgefan, professionals work out different muscle groups each day. This prevents tiring out of the muscles

Answer 2

You need to rest at least one day between workout. So if you lift weights on Monday, the next workout should be on Wednesday. You should take a week off doing nothing except walking for 30 minutes a day, then start up again with only two workouts per week to avoid overtraining. Total workout time not including warmup sets should not exceed 45 minutes. Get the book "Get Buffed" by Ian King or check out Testosterone Nation and Bodybuilding.com for good advice and routines

Answer 3

FOR WEIGHTS:

SHORT ANSWER: Never work any single muscle group more than twice (often once is plenty) a week. Always give a muscle group a minimum of 2-or preferably, 3 days full rest before hitting it with weights again.

LONG ANSWER:
Many beginners start out spending TOO MUCH time in the gym, they think they have to come four or five times a week and then they start to make themselves sick and eventually stop coming.
This is because when you work out with weights you are actually causing mild injury to your muscles in the form of microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. To get bigger (cause hypertrophy) is that when your body has a chance to repair these tears it rebuilds the muscle to a point where it is slightly larger and stronger than before the initial injury (training).

So rest is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT aspects of getting bigger and or stronger. How much rest depends on your SPLIT.

1. Some general fitness people who work out primarily with machines and not free weights don't really use a split they will train for the whole body usually doing a circuit of machines one machine by one set for each body part.

2. Body-builder style lifters can have anywhere between a 3-day to a five day split. Normally they do between 3-4 excercises per body part, about 3 sets per exercise. They target the different muscel groups:

Chest Triceps Biceps/ForeArms Shoulders Lats/Traps Legs/Lower Back Abs/Obliques

A three day split of the above might be:
Day1: Chest, Triceps + Shoulders
Day2: Legs + Lower Back
Day 3: Biceps + Forearms, Upper- Back + Midsection

This could be a four day split if we had a day just for biceps/forearms and shoulders for example. A four day split might get you working out MWF+Sat which would mean three days a week of COMPLETE rest. Friday and Saturday you would have back to back workouts but you would not be working the same muscle groups. There are a lot of different ways to come up with a split and different theories on which is best I recommend a 3 or 4 day split.

I recommend trying to hit each muscle group once a week, sometimes if you pick one muscle group you especially want to see results with maybe you could target just one muscle group for a 2nd supplementary workout Like Abs or chest for example, but if you do this make sure that if the first training session is a monday that the second falls on Thursday or Friday.
Also listen to people's advice but mostly listen to what your body is telling you.

To get a sense of the form and variety of exercises try picking up this book:

Getting Stronger 20th Anniversary Edition
by Bil Pearl
ISBN 0-936070-38-2

P.S. For Cardio your frequency can be a little higher, 1-2 days off between training sessions instead

Answer 4

I would recommend working one muscle group at a time, such as chest on one day, back on the next...and so on. You should give each muscle group 36-48 hours of rest between workouts. I have found it to be more beneficial to work one group a day, and about 5 or 6 days a week. Rest is very important, both for you and the muscles.

Answer 5

Should i take a rest day between workouts?

Answer 6

Believe me you MUST take a break! I worked out daily (yes, daily!) for a year and 2 mos. All the compliments about my weight loss kept me motivated and happy. But, inevitably, I started to burn out. It just isn't natural or normal for you to push yourself if you feel overly tired. Sure, "no pain, no gain" theory is true to an extent - but your mind will play tricks on you and you will "OD" so to speak and then possibly do what I did: I stopped for over a week and then getting back in the groove was EXTRA hard! It was like starting all over again.

I advise that you maybe work out 5 days a week...taking 2 days off. See how it feels. Trust me - your body will thank you. Your metabolism and muscle tone will not suffer. In fact, it is more than likely a positive thing. Listen to your body and good luck!!

Answer 7

If you are lifting than you should rest a day inbetween. Try doing only some muscle groups each day rather than all of them. Like on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday do biceps, triceps, quads and butt. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday do shoulders, chest, back, inner and outer thigh. Sunday rest. Don't over exert yourself - you'll only end up getting injuried.

Answer 8

Yes, you should rest between workouts. If you still want to exercise everyday, how about doing cardio instead of weights?

Answer 9

of course. No.1 rule of muscle building is to allow your muscles to build (the day off between workouts) otherwise you are not allow "the building part" to happen.

Sorry the last week has been a waste.

Answer 10

Generally your body is over worked so a way to prevent that is to let it rest for a day and allow it to reboot itself