Weights at the gym- how many days rest do you need?

Remember that you do not lift weights to mimic a movement, that is impossible and useless. You strengthen the areas involved or more importantly your body as a whole, like you don't bench to get a stronger "punch" in that manner because that isn't what a punch is, you do it to strengthen your upper body. Squats don't mimic a bob and weave, etc etc.

 

Agreed re the principal aims of weights, although I think Aramini is right in that explosive benching is similar to pushing someone.

And of course you could introduce resistance into sport specific movements, such as shadow boxing with light dumbbells for example..

I like your posts Small. I'm always suspicious of the posts saying 'don't do this', or 'only do that'. I think you should do it all and figure these things out for yourself, but naturally novices need some structure.

 

That would be to improve shoulder endurance more than anything else though, or for warmup purposes, make the gloves feel a little lighter etc rather than strengthening your punches.

 

Yes. Certainly feels good 'n quick punching without em afterwards..

 

It's my rest day today and I attempted three sets of 24 push-ups. I managed 24, 24, and then 16. I'll keep going until I can do 24x3 and then I'll either add a fourth set or up the reps.

 

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online...rmance/buttonpopping_pecs_in_just_8_weeks&cr=

Unless you're doing a bodypart split ignore the rest and read the "Supplemental Chest Routine" part.

 

I train on a two week cycle where each bodypart is trained three times

Week One:

Mon: Legs, Back, Biceps
Wed: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
Fri: Legs, Back, Biceps

Week Two:

Mon: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
Wed: Legs, Back. Biceps
Fri: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps

Hope this helps

 

Never a good plan for strength to train bodyparts over movements.

And Tnation is crap.

 

Cheers mate, that was helpful. Instead of going to failure on my last set like I did today it says to stop at about 80% of what you think you can manage for each set.

 

Not all of it. Although their constant supplement pushing is ****ing annoying.

 

Most of it is very much in the massive chasm in the bodybuilding/supplements/lifting weights propaganda cycle of pushing whatever they want to and convincing people its THE WAY. Anyway!