Q. How many hours of rest is required after workout from gym?
2 Answers
This is a quite difficult to answer. First, it depends on what you are see as “rest”. If you talk about the sleep, that is main important part of the regeneration cycle - the standard 8hours of sleep is good. It is a highly individual - some people will be ok with less and too much sleep is also not so good (the good book for this subject is Why We Sleep from Matthew Walker. The other topic is the rest as “non-active” time. It is also individual, based on your goals, energy input and oputput etc. If you are on some steroids, it really helps with regeneration and you will benefit from shorter rest pauses + you can train harder. If you are natural, you will train hard and will need longer rest, or train more often but not so hard (needing less rest + actually, this is probably the better way for naturals - i saw some studies that Brad Schoenfeld shared about that i think).
answered by cryptodad