weight lifting 7 days a week

[Ste Moldovski]

hey guys, question, are there any cons from lifting 7 days a week? I want to bulk up asap.

 

[stevesmi]

yeah you will eventually injure yourself and wear down your body

it takes years to grow muscle

 

[E32038]

You need a day at minimum of rest. If you kill it 7 days a week, it will be counterproductive.

 

[Mobster]

hey guys, question, are there any cons from lifting 7 days a week? I want to bulk up asap.

Yeah - where's the recovery??

 

[muskate]

We just had IFBB Derek Lunsford on the EVO Radio podcast. Alot of people are predicting he will win the 212 Mr Olympia this year.

He trains 5 days per week.

7 days per week is counterproductive

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Yeah - where's the recovery??

What Mobster means by that, Ste Moldovski, is that our bodies need rest and thus recovery because that is when our bodies - to wit, our muscles - grow. Indeed, our bodies grow primarily while we are sleeping.
Training, on the other hand, breaks down our muscles, thereby actually making them smaller. Therefore, if one were train every day, then one's body would never grow. So rest and enjoy it.

 

[RoySimpson]

Rest and recovery are just as important as the lifting. Without proper rest you will get injured.

 

[moze]

actually you need to train less if you wanna bulk up fast because you will burn too many calories working out eveyrday and your muscles wont grow but can actually even become smaller from overtraining. You wanna train 3 times a week (maximum 4) no longer then 1 hour each time. You grow when you eat not when you train, there as a quote, better to miss a workout then a meal

 

[aggirl]

I like to do some sort of physical activity everyday. Whether it be a walk, bike ride, jumping around with my kids etc.

But weight training 7 days a week seems like over kill.