Im not sure this is an actual arnold quote
any bodybuilder knows you need plenty of rest to maintain muscle growth
overtraining is real, and it ain't great for gains
Two types of bodybuilders, the ones who realize that "Rest" is just as important as "pumping iron" and the kind that ******* cripple themselves before they get anywhere near as big as Arny was.
Either way, Arnold overcame A LOT to get to where he was, roids or not. Even if he was on roids you can deny hardwork, and plus his cycle was no where near the cycles bodybuilders take today. He also admitted to only using them weeks prior to shows.
I have nothing against roids as long as, 1. they don't make you violent, 2. you are not in in a physical competition. (not even to be model because it's not fair to people wanting to work out but in a healthy way)
As long as you are just body building or getting stronger just because you want to there's nothing wrong with it.
What's everyone's opinion on rest days?
I've heard they are good and you should take them or that they are a waste of time and a day or rest doesn't help muscles grow.
Thoughts and personal opinions?
I go 5 days straight, then the weekend's my rest days
I'd prefer 3 days, rest, 2 days, rest.
But I have work on the weekends and i just can't do both as it affects my job performance
They are neccassary. Actually letting the muscle recover and rebuild is way more important than the actual lifting itself. If you don't take rest days you're gonna develop a really ****** up underdeveloped physique. Five day split fags reccomend bi's and tri's after shoulder day. Good luck with that hitting arms a day after doing super heavy military presses. Monday- Chest, Wednesday- Back, Friday- Shoulders. Try to hit bi's and tri's at the end of each workout day. For legs combine with distance running to get shredded low body fat. Cardio will NEVER kill your gains unless you're literally eating less than 500 calories a day.
Cardio WILL kill your gains if you consistently burn enough calories to put yourself in a deficit. If you can't ******* kill your delts and then train arms the next day you're doing something wrong. Doing push/raising motions with your deltoids shouldn't utilize muscles in your arms any more than actually holding the weight and keeping it steady, or you are not actually working your delts. And then going to pulling exercises for biceps and extension exercises for triceps should not use your ******* delts.
You're a ******* idiot. Hitting 200lb dumbell presses on your shoulders is gonna KILL your triceps, don't pretend it won't. Then you're gonna hit them the very next day? So tell me again about how much progress you've made. Oh and since you're also stating how cardio will kill your gains, I can only imagine you're just one of those overweight dudes who bulks for three quarters of the entire year. Educate yourself you ******* pleb.
Go **** yourself. I've been doing arms the very next day after delts since I was 15. I do barely enough cardio to make me hungry enough to eat enough to make gains, because running oneself to death can't ******* shake a stick at a proper diet in terms of fat loss. Lets see you do 400 ******* lbs worth of shoulder presses. Correctly training your deltoids is using flexion and extension of the deltoids only to move the weight, not using all of the ******* muscles in your arms and back to make weights move up and down.