@@Lambo_567Don’t be so sure. The research on this is kind of profound… In the upper body, they found that muscular atrophy begins to set in around the 8 day mark following the last workout of 3 or more sets. But strangely, the lower body(and spinal erectors) did not follow this trend and instead would recover ~90% in the first 7 days then over the next 350-500 days the muscle continued making incrementally smaller gains in growth and repair; ending up significantly bigger and stronger than it started. Avg % increase was 109.5%(strength), 111.0%(volume) and 104.5%(tendon/ligament score). The research team dubbed the phenomenon “lower extremity micropertrophy”. Fascinating right?! I personally train legs every 5th day but idk, our OP here might be on the something.
Met him in Miami the year before he won Mr. O. Rest was his #1 recommendation regarding building muscle. To paraphrase him “you’ll be surprised at how many people never reach their potential because they won’t do something as simple as rest”. Classy dude…
@@manuellares11 same here brotha. I recently switched up to a higher frequency program just to give it a shot and it worked like a charm....for about two months lol then i stagnated and even backslid a little. Got too addicted to it to wanna dial it back. BUT, i finally did dial it back and all is well again lol 💪💪
I'm a big Jay cutler fan but he isn't on a TRT dose his probably on a 600mg test dose minimum and a estrogen blocker plus maybe some EQ low dose 250mgs a week.
@justahtrucker2879 maybe because I'm 260 pounds ripped and someone like Jay at 50 years old isn't keeping all that mass on 250mgs of trt and look that shredded I'm sorry it just not possible at that low dose.
There are tons of body builders, but Jay has been the most helpful and beneficial in terms of advice, positive attitude, lack of ego…..it’s honestly a great combination for a guy that has achieved so much in the body building community !
Training for 58 yrs now. At 72 what works for me is once a week per body part. Still hold a Tx USPA record. Lost national record unfortunately. Jay you are so helpful I've followed for many years!
@@terris-njwdepends on who you ask. Mentzer says annihilate, Haney says activate not annihilate. Alot of top guys have very different training methods.
@@leecox5218Mentzer says activate, but believes that in order to properly activate you have to train to failure. If he said to annihilate he would recommend training 5+ sets to failure for each muscle group, but he thinks 1 is sufficient
Rest and recovery with proper nutrition are things I always put alot of stock in. I'm 56 and have trained for 40 yrs. One learns and im still learning to this day. Really enjoyed this short video Jay. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
Hi..2 questions for you (please) 1) if it's accepted that the body can only process 8-10 grams of protein per hour,that would mean in a 16 hour day the body can only do max 160 grams of protein in a day...What are your thoughts on that? 2) im 49..train from time to time over the years on my weight bench,Do you feel it's important to wait 72 hours for moderate lifting or can 48 be good enough? Any help is appreciated,i saw we werein same age group so figured i'd bug you first! Thanks for any info.
@@dwade6322 I find as I age I need a bit longer it seems to recover. I try to eat 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. I do normally a 6 day split. 3 on one off. Recently I do every other day and it seems to help. Training each bodypart once a week. I hope that helps you 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
@@dwade6322 1.5g of protein per lb of body weight is egregious. If you have the money to just eat chicken breasts all day then go nuts, I guess, but research puts like 98% of peoples optimum protein intake somewhere between 0.5g/lb and 1.2g/lb.
I had been doing full body for 6 days a week to cut weight, then started doing individual muscle groups once I dropped my weight. The hardest part was forcing myself to take days off but once I did I started seeing the gains I was looking for.
Same here... It's so hard to not workout when you're 100% into working out. It does make a huge difference though. The pump is a lot more profound when you're working out with fully recovered muscles.
@Sz Ki I seen gains while doing full body 6x a week but the gains from actually splitting muscle groups and giving those groups a full 72 hour rest before working them again was alot better. The gains are bigger when the muscle is allowed to rest before hitting it again.
@Manilla Gorilla I was basically doing the same things I do now in my current split but just doing them daily. Push ups, pull ups, curls, squats, incline and flat bench, skull crushers, and kettlebell swings. I was also starting off my workouts with a run on the treadmill. I was in the mindset to just do whatever to burn calories, which worked for weight-loss. Now that I have a better understanding on what to do and when to do it I can tell a huge difference.
Not how muscle building works. You only need a maximum of 4 days if you have bad genetics and anything after that usually means you are working out to hard or with too much volume. You can still build muscle like that but it mostly means your on the line of too much and Just a small adjustment to your routine would improve your strength and size overall.
@@Leavemealone670 do you believe that 12 sets once per week for a specific muscle is the same as 4 sets but at 3 times per week ? If not then I would like to know your opinion on why, I am a beginner and with your answer to this post, it gives me reasons to believe that you are experienced.
@@earlcoles5215 muscles need to be stretched and fibers broken then re-healed to be bigger and stronger for the specific purpose. When you do a certain amount of sets it activates that muscle and helps it grow quicker but when you do too many you regress the muscle in to a weaker variant because it doesn’t have time to heal. 12 sets is way to many and is proven by many scientists and natural body builders. The optimal sets is under 8. And for another thing is that muscles never take a whole week to heal and if it does you have serious problems. If you want your muscles to optimally heal wait 3 days and work a different group in between or if you use supplements wait 2 days and work a different group in between and you’ll gain muscle as fast as possible. Tho sometimes you will need a longer recovery time.
@@Leavemealone670 ok thanks for the knowledge. Last question, you and millions speak about recovery in order for it to heal, I just would like to know how men of a races that are in prison are able to achieve the thickest chests from 500 dips and pushups 5 to 6 days a week with little rest and not the best nutrition. How does this work ?
Most people are severely under recovered and hurting their gains. Without question the absolute best gains I ever saw came from working each muscle group only once per week. I don't understand how you can assign a time frame like that for recovery when it takes twice as long in your forties and fifties as it did in your twenties. Also in my opinion one of the best things you can do is take an entire week off every couple months. I have seen exceptional results from doing that myself. "No one ever built an ounce of muscle in the gym." -Schwarzenegger
I am 40 and take one week off every three due to work commitments its seems to have worked well, I never suffered feeling flat from from overtraining in the past but I get it now if I train 2 days consecutive even if the body parts are not the same.
A muscle group does not need 6 days off to recover! If it does, you've gone way too hard! Higher frequency but less sets and less to failure works just as well as smashing yourself once a week.
I do biceps once a week. They are activated in almost every exercise such as pull ups, barbel rows etc so there's no need to focus too much on training biceps. Focus more on the main compound movements to build a solid frame
Completely agree. 5 to 7 days. Under severe training with not help from special substances to accelerate the synthesis of protein should be at least 7 days. My biceps I have extended for more days even, because when you train hard back, chest or shoulder you are using basically all the muscles from your arms.
When I was weights training in my early 20s I only went to the gym three times per week and was in their each time for about 35-45 minutes. I received many compliments at how much faster I was growing than most others. I placed a huge emphasis on recovery vs how long I can spend in the gym each week. I think this guy is saying something similar.
I did that the exact way and I did supersets (meaning I didn’t stop working out the entire 45 min) I just worked different muscles while the ones I just worked rested but I literally went so fast that I didn’t even change my work clothes I was in jeans and work boots and I made tremendous gains and transformed my body very quickly. That was 25 years ago and would love to do it again
@@maiageia1240bruh ,u train ur biceps and rest until u feel ready to train them again im 20yo and i rest my biceps 4 to 5 days before training them again
Yea, it’s crazy, I will go extremely hard for 2 or 3 weeks taking maybe 1 or 2 days off during those weeks then take 5-7 days off and it works miracles
Same. Had one week off bcause i was on holiday and for once i didnt wanna hunt down a gym overseas and pamper myself.. got back and all the weights bumped up.
It’s because your body has stored carbs and protein that need to be used. J use to work out twice, or even three times a day. He just doesn’t want folks to be like him so he can hold the top.
When I went on a 5 day ski holiday during bulking season I came back noticeably stronger. I think it's a good idea to train well for a month then have a rest week.
It’s not just training, it’s also how much and WHAT you eat while recovering. You can speed up the process by eating the right meals. It’s not always one way or the other.
@@gurbydhar yeah, so you do cardio after cardio. After a while your body just adapts to the effort you put it through and it just does nothing. I could do 10x10 everyday of one arm kettlebell snatcjes with 40kg when my goal was a single 20 rep set, I never got sore, it wasn't training, it was excercise. Try going for thousands, you know, like Gama.
You don't do abs for stability? I do 300 seated crunches (3x100) and 1 min. planks in between sets. I like to alternate planks with kettlebell sidebends for 25 reps each side (left and right side) and immediately jump into the next set of 100 seated crunches.
Bro I’m so eager to grow, I don’t want to rest but I know I have to in order to grow and avoid injury. Guess I just gotta be patient and stay consistent
If you don’t rest, you don’t grow. Depending on how hard you train, eat, and sleep; usually 2-3 days is enough rest for me. And to be clear: that means I do legs one day, upper body the next, and then legs on day 3. That means I gave my legs 2 days rest. That goes for in between sets too. Don’t ever feel bad from taking 3-5 min rest in between sets (though if you need 5 min rests, you should take it as a sign to consider lowering the weight next session). Stay on your grind, I believe in you!
You can akways do other things to keep yourself busy. And just do two groups, then the next day, do two ither groups, and so on. Then you can get back to the group 72-96 hours later. Thats what helped me make gains, mind you Im no pro. Find what works for you, my friend. 👍
But construction workers or farmers never actually do curls though, they might carry something heavy over their head 5 times a day but, not all in one go, and they just mostly use their grip strength and wrist strength, that's why they got those big forearms
@@johankaruyan5536 the curling motion of the arm is naturally done. Everything you pick up towards your body is a curl. Picking up cement. Equipment, heavy tools etc all simulate a curl or curl variation.
@@ayebee4703 who picks up bricks like that ? Also while that is somewhat true, picking up something with two of ur hands infront of u is so much more easier than doing full rom curls to failure for like 5 sets all in one go, holding a cement bag with ur arms somewhat curled is a lot more easier than curling a cement bag all the way up and all the way down for multiple reps and plus ! Construction workers don't do progress I've overload so they get used to it where it gets easy
He is so humble and full of knowledge. Hands down one of the top tier elite body builders to ever grace the stage. He is on my Mt. Rushmore of Body builders. Way less gear and no bubble gut ever in his career. Most of all he doesn't promote these garbage unsustainable gimmick diet's.
It's funny how people say, "well what am I going to do then". Like there aren't tons of other muscles you can focus on besides just back and bi's, chest and tri's and squats lol I dedicate whole workouts to just forearms, calves, and abs when certain muscles are still sore.
I just hit 225 for 5 reps from following the 5 days rest concept. Never done that before. 5 days earlier I barely got 3 reps so I’m telling it works. I literally go up in weight or reps or both every 5 days.
@@KasHxJay tbh the best I have found was ULUL. I did a 6 day PPL for a year and a half. Was to much. I did PPLUL for another year. To much. Doing a 4 day ULUL seems to be a good spot for me and I would imagine most people.
I started training again in january after a long break. Because of work I can only train thursday-sunday so I abuse myself for 3-4 days and then rest for 3-4 days. I've gotten great results from that. But I believe that nutrition and especially not eating crappy food is of equal importance as rest.
I am not telling anybody what to do other than be careful and don’t abuse yourself in the way Ronnie Coleman did and be in pain for the rest of your life. But I do understand what you are saying.
He wrote an article grow your arms one inch in five workouts and it worked its hard and he states discipline is key but follow the steps and rest was the hardest thing to do! Love this guy he's great if you meet him as well!
@@earlcoles5215 Excellent question. Think of recovery as the process of repairing and putting back what was used (resources) during the workout (proteins, glucose, calcium, sodium etc etc) Post recovery, super compensation needs to take place "building upon or adding to, the current foundation" to ensure the body is stronger or faster etc able to tolerate future training stress. Now, think of the nervous system as the control center. Without neural input the muscle will not contract (people with spinal injury causing loss of movement). Also, think of the brain as an amplifier, as you train the muscle gets stronger through stronger neutral inputs, order of fiber contraction and also bigger fibers etc. (Think the Olympics power lifters "light weight competitors are smaller but much stronger" pound for pound vs body builders) the nervous system plays a huge role in how you feel and perform. I.e. you feel tired and drained...hope this clarifies, neurophysiology is a dense subject hard to simply if a few words
I knew a guy at a gym I went to many years ago. And he would literally train arms every day atleast 5 days a week. His arms were massive in comparison to most regular people. I asked him if he ever took a break on them and he just said no lol
This seems right to me, I used to workout every other day and saw not much muscle growth but when I wait a few days in between I see more muscle growth
That’s me with legs, can’t even sit down and poop for like 4 days because how sore I am Edit: apparently according to everyone else I’m ending up like Ronnie Coleman at a ripe 30 years lmao
@@wildmike951 nah just shit myself and just clean myself and wash my clothes in the shower while I drink my double protein scoop shake, efficiency, my friend!
His idea of volume was usually pretty substantial. He typically trained each muscle group with 30+ sets and heavy weights. Like someone once told me, riding a bike trains your quads, but you can ride a bike every day because of the difference in volume and intensity with riding vs squats
I agree and always did a body part only once in a week. I always felt like I was still recovering if I didn’t give time for growth. I have always wondered how the Arnold’s, and Franco’s of their day did each body part every other day with high volume training and were.still able to put on a good amount of mass?
well, most of the recovery is happening within 24 hours. not all, but most. they also weren't nuking it with as much volume as the guys do today, volume is super important.
Be very weary of those studies. Take them with a grain of salt. Our ancestors used to work their hands to the bone, they didn’t wait 72+ hours to work again. You can’t grow a farm by working once or twice a week. Your body absolutely is capable of handling much larger volumes of stress.
As much as I love Big-Stomp-Jay, let's not forget to mention that 'gear' helps to recover much quicker. So what works for pros doesn't always work for nattys.
@@genzcurmudgeon8037frequency is really important for natties. I think training a muscle once a week only works if you're obliterating the muscle, which you really shouldn't be doing as a natty.
@@wigletron2846 I believe you can totally obliterate it but you MUST allow enough time to recover and grow. Dorian Yates has a very good analogy about using a piece of sandpaper on your palm to cause skin irritation. Same with the damage to the muscle tissue. I started HIT / HD training recently doing 1 set to complete failure per exercise. And it works for me. I completely destroy myself during those intense 40 minutes sessions but then I wait 7 days until I go and do the same workout again.
@@genzcurmudgeon8037 Bro Split is working for me but not necessarily the way to go for everyone else. I trained the chest on Monday and it is still sore today (Wednesday). So I won't be training it until next Monday as I want to allow time for it to recover. Meanwhile I am going to train other muscle groups.
@@ChuckNorris-bf5cj Yeah I get that. I’m sure it works fine. But while doing chest you’ll hit shoulders and triceps. So if you do arms or shoulders that will end up being more than 1 a week. After years of chasing the pump and working out 5 days a week I switched to strong lifts 5x5 program. 3 days a week focusing exclusively on the big compound lifts and getting stronger. I had an embarrassing squat deadlift etc for my size and I wanted to get stronger.
it’s so crazy how accurate the “ rest 72 hrs “ is. when i first began bodybuilding i’d workout everyday every chance i could get and while i did see beginning gains it wasn’t until unintentionally life began getting in the way of gym time. i’ve learned to really understand and respond to my body over the years. i noticed if i went more than 3 days without any weight lifting id have - low energy weaker training sessions decreased reps/sets BUT usually after 2 days of intense workouts pushing through id bounce right back. the sweet spot for me has really been 3 days. in those 3 days i rest a lot stretch and up my water intake which then i’ve noticed on the 4th day when i’m back in the gym i can see significant growth increased energy reps/sets overall a more satisfying fulfilled training session. (similar to a refreshed feeling) i follow a push/pull split with hypertrophy to reach an aesthetic build so definitely keep in mind what goals you wana achieve just simply listen to your body.
I like the magic of our individuality. For me, I used to have a weakness on biceps, and started to recognize that for my body it is beneficial to train this muscle every day, absolutely different than others of mt body.
He’s on the juice guys. More muscle = more intensity = longer rest periods. There’s one dude who was on the Mr.Olympia stage that trained like once a month. This is not you!😂 3-4 days while doing high intensity training is plenty. If you’re super sore something else is going on and you need to fix your program or form/mobility.
Right! I do each exercise only once week for maximum recovery and growth. I might have leg day on Monday and Thursdays, but they are different exercises/lifts. I'll do my squats/leg presses/toe raises on Monday - Thursdays are about leg extensions and leg curls.
"How often to train biceps?"
Answers in this video:
-5 to 7 days rest
-72 hours rest
-3x per week
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I literally watched the video 6 times. You should rest 72 hours. 3X a week. 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣. WTF🤯 Your completely contradicting your own word's
He didn't say to do it 3 times a week did he?
Bro Science 101.
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I do legs every 7 to 8…. Years or so
That's funny
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You need more rest
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Jesus Christ yr an animal bro
I don’t skip leg day, I just give them years to recover for maximum growth
Lol
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Dude there is a maximum limit of let say 10 to 12 days then it will shrink again if u dont train it 😂😂😂
@@Lambo_567Don’t be so sure. The research on this is kind of profound… In the upper body, they found that muscular atrophy begins to set in around the 8 day mark following the last workout of 3 or more sets. But strangely, the lower body(and spinal erectors) did not follow this trend and instead would recover ~90% in the first 7 days then over the next 350-500 days the muscle continued making incrementally smaller gains in growth and repair; ending up significantly bigger and stronger than it started. Avg % increase was 109.5%(strength), 111.0%(volume) and 104.5%(tendon/ligament score). The research team dubbed the phenomenon “lower extremity micropertrophy”.
Fascinating right?! I personally train legs every 5th day but idk, our OP here might be on the something.
@@Andrew-be7ts so u are trying to say legs dont get weaker till day 500??
Met him in Miami the year before he won Mr. O. Rest was his #1 recommendation regarding building muscle. To paraphrase him “you’ll be surprised at how many people never reach their potential because they won’t do something as simple as rest”. Classy dude…
Literally me trying to find a reason to go again today. But if the goat is saying wait, ill wait.
@@manuellares110:38 Help I don't understand. Should you only train your biceps once per week?
That's how you develop muscle by resting not by working out a whole lot
@@manuellares11yeah I go at least 4-5 times a week 2-3 days rest but honestly I just feel better about myself after awhile
@@manuellares11 same here brotha. I recently switched up to a higher frequency program just to give it a shot and it worked like a charm....for about two months lol then i stagnated and even backslid a little. Got too addicted to it to wanna dial it back. BUT, i finally did dial it back and all is well again lol 💪💪
The dude‘s 50 and coasting on TRT and looking great. He did right man.
Trt for him is like a cycle for others, the bigger u are the more test u need to maintain normal levels for your size
I'm a big Jay cutler fan but he isn't on a TRT dose his probably on a 600mg test dose minimum and a estrogen blocker plus maybe some EQ low dose 250mgs a week.
@@pedrodetor sorry are you his personal physician😂
@@pedrodetor how do you know this 🤔
@justahtrucker2879 maybe because I'm 260 pounds ripped and someone like Jay at 50 years old isn't keeping all that mass on 250mgs of trt and look that shredded I'm sorry it just not possible at that low dose.
Recovery is very important i give my legs at least 2 months of recovery after i train them
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Same here
Same
Have given mine a year.
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"recovery is when the muscle is growing." That's all I needed to hear
There are tons of body builders, but Jay has been the most helpful and beneficial in terms of advice, positive attitude, lack of ego…..it’s honestly a great combination for a guy that has achieved so much in the body building community !
Training for 58 yrs now. At 72 what works for me is once a week per body part. Still hold a Tx USPA record. Lost national record unfortunately. Jay you are so helpful I've followed for many years!
Incredible! I hope to still be working out when I'm your age. I've been working hard for almost two years now, and I'm 23.
Respect to you sir
Yessir much respect to you
Definitely right answer, it's never black and white when coming to exercise. Always working in the gray area and experimenting
Play it by feel
If you don't annihilate your muscles, you can train 3 times per week. Pick two exercises for body part, do 5 sets for each, and that's it.
Depends on your goals
Isn't it better to annihilate and rest?
Why would you do that though you don’t make proper gains or strength gains. You need to workout hard.
@@terris-njwdepends on who you ask.
Mentzer says annihilate, Haney says activate not annihilate.
Alot of top guys have very different training methods.
@@leecox5218Mentzer says activate, but believes that in order to properly activate you have to train to failure. If he said to annihilate he would recommend training 5+ sets to failure for each muscle group, but he thinks 1 is sufficient
Rest and recovery with proper nutrition are things I always put alot of stock in. I'm 56 and have trained for 40 yrs. One learns and im still learning to this day. Really enjoyed this short video Jay. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
Hi..2 questions for you (please) 1) if it's accepted that the body can only process 8-10 grams of protein per hour,that would mean in a 16 hour day the body can only do max 160 grams of protein in a day...What are your thoughts on that? 2) im 49..train from time to time over the years on my weight bench,Do you feel it's important to wait 72 hours for moderate lifting or can 48 be good enough? Any help is appreciated,i saw we werein same age group so figured i'd bug you first! Thanks for any info.
@@dwade6322 I find as I age I need a bit longer it seems to recover. I try to eat 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. I do normally a 6 day split. 3 on one off. Recently I do every other day and it seems to help. Training each bodypart once a week. I hope that helps you 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
@@thomasgumersell9607 Yes it helps. Thank you!
@@dwade6322 1.5g of protein per lb of body weight is egregious. If you have the money to just eat chicken breasts all day then go nuts, I guess, but research puts like 98% of peoples optimum protein intake somewhere between 0.5g/lb and 1.2g/lb.
@@thomasgumersell9607Help I don't understand. Should you only train your biceps once per week?
I had been doing full body for 6 days a week to cut weight, then started doing individual muscle groups once I dropped my weight. The hardest part was forcing myself to take days off but once I did I started seeing the gains I was looking for.
Same here... It's so hard to not workout when you're 100% into working out. It does make a huge difference though. The pump is a lot more profound when you're working out with fully recovered muscles.
Once a week is not enough. Your muscles only grow for a few days after
@Sz Ki I seen gains while doing full body 6x a week but the gains from actually splitting muscle groups and giving those groups a full 72 hour rest before working them again was alot better. The gains are bigger when the muscle is allowed to rest before hitting it again.
@@chadstout270 what was your routine for 6 a week full body?
@Manilla Gorilla I was basically doing the same things I do now in my current split but just doing them daily. Push ups, pull ups, curls, squats, incline and flat bench, skull crushers, and kettlebell swings. I was also starting off my workouts with a run on the treadmill. I was in the mindset to just do whatever to burn calories, which worked for weight-loss. Now that I have a better understanding on what to do and when to do it I can tell a huge difference.
rest is essential for the muscle, i mostly give my legs about 19 years rest since april of 2023.
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Don't get injured, give it a rest to recover.
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He rested 5+ days because his workouts were otherworldly.
Really
Not how muscle building works. You only need a maximum of 4 days if you have bad genetics and anything after that usually means you are working out to hard or with too much volume. You can still build muscle like that but it mostly means your on the line of too much and Just a small adjustment to your routine would improve your strength and size overall.
@@Leavemealone670 do you believe that 12 sets once per week for a specific muscle is the same as 4 sets but at 3 times per week ? If not then I would like to know your opinion on why, I am a beginner and with your answer to this post, it gives me reasons to believe that you are experienced.
@@earlcoles5215 muscles need to be stretched and fibers broken then re-healed to be bigger and stronger for the specific purpose. When you do a certain amount of sets it activates that muscle and helps it grow quicker but when you do too many you regress the muscle in to a weaker variant because it doesn’t have time to heal. 12 sets is way to many and is proven by many scientists and natural body builders. The optimal sets is under 8. And for another thing is that muscles never take a whole week to heal and if it does you have serious problems. If you want your muscles to optimally heal wait 3 days and work a different group in between or if you use supplements wait 2 days and work a different group in between and you’ll gain muscle as fast as possible. Tho sometimes you will need a longer recovery time.
@@Leavemealone670 ok thanks for the knowledge. Last question, you and millions speak about recovery in order for it to heal, I just would like to know how men of a races that are in prison are able to achieve the thickest chests from 500 dips and pushups 5 to 6 days a week with little rest and not the best nutrition. How does this work ?
Rest is a major key to this man’s longevity.
Most people are severely under recovered and hurting their gains. Without question the absolute best gains I ever saw came from working each muscle group only once per week. I don't understand how you can assign a time frame like that for recovery when it takes twice as long in your forties and fifties as it did in your twenties. Also in my opinion one of the best things you can do is take an entire week off every couple months. I have seen exceptional results from doing that myself. "No one ever built an ounce of muscle in the gym." -Schwarzenegger
I am 40 and take one week off every three due to work commitments its seems to have worked well, I never suffered feeling flat from from overtraining in the past but I get it now if I train 2 days consecutive even if the body parts are not the same.
A muscle group does not need 6 days off to recover! If it does, you've gone way too hard! Higher frequency but less sets and less to failure works just as well as smashing yourself once a week.
Full body 3x per week, 50 years old, getting some serious gains again for the first time in years. Frequency > intensity as you get older ftw.
Do you still eat calorie surplus and keep up your protein intake on rest days?
@@PlayshotKalo if you’re trying to grow yes
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Love... exciting and new...
I do biceps once a week. They are activated in almost every exercise such as pull ups, barbel rows etc so there's no need to focus too much on training biceps. Focus more on the main compound movements to build a solid frame
Exactly, small body part. Every 10 days for me
Yessir
Completely agree. 5 to 7 days. Under severe training with not help from special substances to accelerate the synthesis of protein should be at least 7 days.
My biceps I have extended for more days even, because when you train hard back, chest or shoulder you are using basically all the muscles from your arms.
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so a bro split over say a 5 day PPL?
When I was weights training in my early 20s I only went to the gym three times per week and was in their each time for about 35-45 minutes. I received many compliments at how much faster I was growing than most others. I placed a huge emphasis on recovery vs how long I can spend in the gym each week. I think this guy is saying something similar.
You were in your 20s and newb gains. You can basically do anything then and grow as long as you are consistant.
I did that the exact way and I did supersets (meaning I didn’t stop working out the entire 45 min) I just worked different muscles while the ones I just worked rested but I literally went so fast that I didn’t even change my work clothes I was in jeans and work boots and I made tremendous gains and transformed my body very quickly. That was 25 years ago and would love to do it again
Great advice. I didn’t start growing my muscles until I began to only working them out once a week
Help I don't understand. Should you only train your biceps once per week?
@@maiageia1240bruh ,u train ur biceps and rest until u feel ready to train them again im 20yo and i rest my biceps 4 to 5 days before training them again
@@maiageia1240 Yes. Natural lifters should not be training more than 2-3 times a week a specific muscle group. Recovery is as important as exercising.
Regular dudes be watching this going “I need to rest”. People forget how hard he trains
I now know why I got strong when I didn't go to the gym for a week. I was so confused
Yea, it’s crazy,
I will go extremely hard for 2 or 3 weeks taking maybe 1 or 2 days off during those weeks then take 5-7 days off and it works miracles
Same. Had one week off bcause i was on holiday and for once i didnt wanna hunt down a gym overseas and pamper myself.. got back and all the weights bumped up.
@@MaxStax88 same but I take off every 4th or 5th week
It’s because your body has stored carbs and protein that need to be used. J use to work out twice, or even three times a day. He just doesn’t want folks to be like him so he can hold the top.
When I went on a 5 day ski holiday during bulking season I came back noticeably stronger. I think it's a good idea to train well for a month then have a rest week.
It’s not just training, it’s also how much and WHAT you eat while recovering. You can speed up the process by eating the right meals. It’s not always one way or the other.
Facts
Facts
I do body weight 300 squats and 100 lunges immediately after playing 90 mins of football 6 days a week
@@gurbydhar yeah, so you do cardio after cardio. After a while your body just adapts to the effort you put it through and it just does nothing. I could do 10x10 everyday of one arm kettlebell snatcjes with 40kg when my goal was a single 20 rep set, I never got sore, it wasn't training, it was excercise. Try going for thousands, you know, like Gama.
Yep Lee priest says no such thing as over training, just not doing the right things to recover
"Always focus on the Growth."
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And what would be the specific focus ? Thanks in advance
Growth……hormone
Translation: rest for as long as you need to. If its 72 hours, a week, ect.
Finally! Wise advice!! Thanks Jay 👍🏻
My routine for years was
Monday - Chest/Arms
Tues - Shoulders/ Back
Wed - Legs
Repeat Thurs-Sat
Abs 6 days/wk
Sunday off
You don't do abs for stability?
I do 300 seated crunches (3x100) and 1 min. planks in between sets. I like to alternate planks with kettlebell sidebends for 25 reps each side (left and right side) and immediately jump into the next set of 100 seated crunches.
Bro I’m so eager to grow, I don’t want to rest but I know I have to in order to grow and avoid injury. Guess I just gotta be patient and stay consistent
If you don’t rest, you don’t grow. Depending on how hard you train, eat, and sleep; usually 2-3 days is enough rest for me. And to be clear: that means I do legs one day, upper body the next, and then legs on day 3. That means I gave my legs 2 days rest.
That goes for in between sets too. Don’t ever feel bad from taking 3-5 min rest in between sets (though if you need 5 min rests, you should take it as a sign to consider lowering the weight next session).
Stay on your grind, I believe in you!
@@ghostflame9211 bro you need a full body rest days like two in a row
You can akways do other things to keep yourself busy. And just do two groups, then the next day, do two ither groups, and so on. Then you can get back to the group 72-96 hours later.
Thats what helped me make gains, mind you Im no pro. Find what works for you, my friend. 👍
You don't build in the gym, you tear down muscle in the gym. You build at rest.
@ghostflame9211 is it fine if I do shoulders and arms on Tuesday and Thursday? That's 53hours recovery
If you can work in construction, be a trash man Or a farmer and not have over worked arms you can definitely curl dumbbells everyday!
But construction workers or farmers never actually do curls though, they might carry something heavy over their head 5 times a day but, not all in one go, and they just mostly use their grip strength and wrist strength, that's why they got those big forearms
@@johankaruyan5536 the curling motion of the arm is naturally done. Everything you pick up towards your body is a curl. Picking up cement. Equipment, heavy tools etc all simulate a curl or curl variation.
@@ayebee4703 who picks up bricks like that ? Also while that is somewhat true, picking up something with two of ur hands infront of u is so much more easier than doing full rom curls to failure for like 5 sets all in one go, holding a cement bag with ur arms somewhat curled is a lot more easier than curling a cement bag all the way up and all the way down for multiple reps and plus ! Construction workers don't do progress I've overload so they get used to it where it gets easy
@@johankaruyan5536 we both have some valid points I think!
Not same as proper workouts. A better example is ppl who are on bars/rings all day, hours a day and have biggest arms.
He is so humble and full of knowledge. Hands down one of the top tier elite body builders to ever grace the stage. He is on my Mt. Rushmore of Body builders. Way less gear and no bubble gut ever in his career. Most of all he doesn't promote these garbage unsustainable gimmick diet's.
Not just mike menzer that tried to tell us even mr o himself jay is telling us take notes and apply them folks!
Thanks Jay, love these quick tip videos! You are a True Legend!💪😎👍
Finally someone says it's ok to train a muscle group once a week
Thanks Jay, for always giving helpful concise advice.
You are truly world class 🤙
Facts I took 4 days off and came back hit a PR on bench you have to let your body heal!!! I've totally changed my training/off days now IT WORKS!!!
What’s you’re split lookin like
It's funny how people say, "well what am I going to do then". Like there aren't tons of other muscles you can focus on besides just back and bi's, chest and tri's and squats lol I dedicate whole workouts to just forearms, calves, and abs when certain muscles are still sore.
I just hit 225 for 5 reps from following the 5 days rest concept. Never done that before. 5 days earlier I barely got 3 reps so I’m telling it works. I literally go up in weight or reps or both every 5 days.
@@KasHxJay tbh the best I have found was ULUL. I did a 6 day PPL for a year and a half. Was to much. I did PPLUL for another year. To much. Doing a 4 day ULUL seems to be a good spot for me and I would imagine most people.
@@HaveAGoodDayFk.UHelp I don't understand. Should you only train your biceps once per week?
You look very good man. A lot of bodybuilders lose their gains and look very tired. You look fit and you give good advise.
Thank you ! I appreciate you Mike Robbie and the Gang for everything you guys do
I started training again in january after a long break. Because of work I can only train thursday-sunday so I abuse myself for 3-4 days and then rest for 3-4 days. I've gotten great results from that. But I believe that nutrition and especially not eating crappy food is of equal importance as rest.
I am not telling anybody what to do other than be careful and don’t abuse yourself in the way Ronnie Coleman did and be in pain for the rest of your life. But I do understand what you are saying.
Always learning and getting inspired Jay !!!💪💪❤️🔥
People always worried about recovering the muscle. It’s also about your tendons and structures surrounding the muscle that need the most rest.
Exactly, after a biceps workout, what often gets sore are my tendons!
No rest for the wicked. Stay strong Jay!
He wrote an article grow your arms one inch in five workouts and it worked its hard and he states discipline is key but follow the steps and rest was the hardest thing to do! Love this guy he's great if you meet him as well!
Jay's a beast
Not only does the muscle needs to recover, it's primarily the central nervous system that needs recovery
Even after muscle recovery, the muscle still will not grow if you never gave it more days rest all because of the central nervous system ?
@@earlcoles5215 Excellent question. Think of recovery as the process of repairing and putting back what was used (resources) during the workout (proteins, glucose, calcium, sodium etc etc) Post recovery, super compensation needs to take place "building upon or adding to, the current foundation" to ensure the body is stronger or faster etc able to tolerate future training stress. Now, think of the nervous system as the control center. Without neural input the muscle will not contract (people with spinal injury causing loss of movement). Also, think of the brain as an amplifier, as you train the muscle gets stronger through stronger neutral inputs, order of fiber contraction and also bigger fibers etc. (Think the Olympics power lifters "light weight competitors are smaller but much stronger" pound for pound vs body builders) the nervous system plays a huge role in how you feel and perform. I.e. you feel tired and drained...hope this clarifies, neurophysiology is a dense subject hard to simply if a few words
“Focus on the growth” 💪
I like Jay, he's always talked about working smart in addition to hard, which is probably why he's not a totally busted athlete.
I'm surprised Jay didn't give calves as an example 😅. Dem drumsticks poppin'
I saw Jay in real life. I was just astounded. His calves were absolutely MASSIVE!!
I knew a guy at a gym I went to many years ago. And he would literally train arms every day atleast 5 days a week. His arms were massive in comparison to most regular people. I asked him if he ever took a break on them and he just said no lol
Arms don't need rest... Neither do calves
@keithfauntleroy2001 yeh that was his thoughts haha
@@keithfauntleroy2001exactly. Arnold hammered calves every day.
@@megantaylormichaelsHe also took juice every day 😏
Very timely advice. Thank you
Ty for the knowledge brother!!
Your videos have been motivating me to go to the gym. Really diggin your channel!
I appreciate your continuation giving advice like this
Jays body has changed since his playing days
Great channel with great tips thanks Jay
Damn it I worked biceps back to back days and now I feel like I screwed it all up hahaha
Great advice by a Legend, thank you!!
“ always focus on the growth “ perfect 😎
Each muscle group twice a week. 1 day strength, 1 day hypertrophy 👑
How? No rest days?
@ruan441 honestly I usually do Monday Push, Tuesday Pull, Wednesday Leg, Thursday rest, Friday Upper, Saturday Lower, Sunday rest
Great advice! What a guy!!
This seems right to me, I used to workout every other day and saw not much muscle growth but when I wait a few days in between I see more muscle growth
Help I don't understand. Should you only train your biceps once per week?
Also what do you mean by in between
That’s me with legs, can’t even sit down and poop for like 4 days because how sore I am
Edit: apparently according to everyone else I’m ending up like Ronnie Coleman at a ripe 30 years lmao
So do you poop standing up?. Just kidding. I know about serious leg soreness too.
I am pooping right now.
@@wildmike951 loll
@@wildmike951 nah just shit myself and just clean myself and wash my clothes in the shower while I drink my double protein scoop shake, efficiency, my friend!
@@ChuckNorris-bf5cj need help?
Great teachable moment! Appreciate the knowledge and insight.
Listen to this guy, he is giving you gold.
I know it's hard fellas, but you gotta take a break from the weights sometimes
7 days is too long if you aren’t on juice. Keep hitting muscle groups twice a week boys
Yuuuup nattys gotta regularly stimulate dat muscle protein synthesis. If it's not sore I'm hittin it
Yeah I'm good
I train every day my boy
he said if u are doing more volume then give rest otherwise not.. am sure we cannot train like him and do that much volume
@@jbjoseph4326 try reading it again
His idea of volume was usually pretty substantial. He typically trained each muscle group with 30+ sets and heavy weights. Like someone once told me, riding a bike trains your quads, but you can ride a bike every day because of the difference in volume and intensity with riding vs squats
Jay's a pure animal when it comes to this stuff
1x per week frequency per muscle group is the best approach 👍
7 days is best? For maximum growth ? Or maintaining?
I agree and always did a body part only once in a week. I always felt like I was still recovering if I didn’t give time for growth.
I have always wondered how the Arnold’s, and Franco’s of their day did each body part every other day with high volume training and were.still able to put on a good amount of mass?
well, most of the recovery is happening within 24 hours. not all, but most. they also weren't nuking it with as much volume as the guys do today, volume is super important.
Thats a bro split. Very sub optimal. Can deff hit everything 2-3 times a week
Thanks to Jay.
‘Rest and grow’ - Mike Mentzer
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My friend works out upper body then lower body 7 days a week with no rest days. As you might have guessed, he has almost no muscle mass
Bro Looking Good & Fit For His Age Keep Working King 😎🙏🏾💪🏾🖤🔥
Once your not sore anymore train it again
100% correct
Literally
Lmfao, even if they're not sore you still need at least 72 hours before hitting the same muscle group.
@@sambear6079would if they are still sore at 72 hours? Still train it ?
Never heard of that! 3-4 times a week in the gym for me
He said rest the bicep. You do legs, back, chest, and abs on different days.
@@moe808 always
Listen to a Mike Mentzer audio on training and it will probably change your life on how you view resistance training.
@@user-xe5fz6se9j TY.. I'll remember that
Great post! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful explanation....
Be very weary of those studies. Take them with a grain of salt. Our ancestors used to work their hands to the bone, they didn’t wait 72+ hours to work again. You can’t grow a farm by working once or twice a week. Your body absolutely is capable of handling much larger volumes of stress.
So the muscle doesn't need rest for maximum growth?
As much as I love Big-Stomp-Jay, let's not forget to mention that 'gear' helps to recover much quicker. So what works for pros doesn't always work for nattys.
Yeah I mean how is a natural weight lifter going to optimize gains only working a body part once a week?
@@genzcurmudgeon8037frequency is really important for natties. I think training a muscle once a week only works if you're obliterating the muscle, which you really shouldn't be doing as a natty.
@@wigletron2846 I believe you can totally obliterate it but you MUST allow enough time to recover and grow. Dorian Yates has a very good analogy about using a piece of sandpaper on your palm to cause skin irritation. Same with the damage to the muscle tissue.
I started HIT / HD training recently doing 1 set to complete failure per exercise. And it works for me. I completely destroy myself during those intense 40 minutes sessions but then I wait 7 days until I go and do the same workout again.
@@genzcurmudgeon8037 Bro Split is working for me but not necessarily the way to go for everyone else. I trained the chest on Monday and it is still sore today (Wednesday). So I won't be training it until next Monday as I want to allow time for it to recover. Meanwhile I am going to train other muscle groups.
@@ChuckNorris-bf5cj Yeah I get that. I’m sure it works fine.
But while doing chest you’ll hit shoulders and triceps. So if you do arms or shoulders that will end up being more than 1 a week.
After years of chasing the pump and working out 5 days a week I switched to strong lifts 5x5 program. 3 days a week focusing exclusively on the big compound lifts and getting stronger. I had an embarrassing squat deadlift etc for my size and I wanted to get stronger.
Thank you Coach Cutler!!
Jay rockin the Js!
Dag THANKYOU this is bicep day for me. Thankyou so much. I literally wasn't sure how long to rest for.
Thank you Jay! 👍👍👍
it’s so crazy how accurate the “ rest 72 hrs “ is. when i first began bodybuilding i’d workout everyday every chance i could get and while i did see beginning gains it wasn’t until unintentionally life began getting in the way of gym time. i’ve learned to really understand and respond to my body over the years. i noticed if i went more than 3 days without any weight lifting id have - low energy weaker training sessions decreased reps/sets BUT usually after 2 days of intense workouts pushing through id bounce right back. the sweet spot for me has really been 3 days. in those 3 days i rest a lot stretch and up my water intake which then i’ve noticed on the 4th day when i’m back in the gym i can see significant growth increased energy reps/sets overall a more satisfying fulfilled training session.
(similar to a refreshed feeling)
i follow a push/pull split with hypertrophy to reach an aesthetic build so definitely keep in mind what goals you wana achieve just simply listen to your body.
Jay looks amazing for his age. i'm so glad he came out through the other end okay
For a maximal output and muscle growth standpoint this makes sense
Awesome advice👏🏼🤝🏻thank u
What I needed to see on my deload week
Always good advice , thank you Jay.
Jay Cutler,, one of the best ever ! Honest and always friendly! 🔥💯
The legend is rockin em black & white 85s high 🔥
Love his advice… thanks
Thanks brother Jay!!
I like the magic of our individuality. For me, I used to have a weakness on biceps, and started to recognize that for my body it is beneficial to train this muscle every day, absolutely different than others of mt body.
Jay cutler pimpin with the shoes bro
He’s on the juice guys. More muscle = more intensity = longer rest periods. There’s one dude who was on the Mr.Olympia stage that trained like once a month. This is not you!😂 3-4 days while doing high intensity training is plenty. If you’re super sore something else is going on and you need to fix your program or form/mobility.
I’ve always saw this guy in Max Muscle ad magazines for years. This is the first time I’ve actually heard his voice. 😜
Right! I do each exercise only once week for maximum recovery and growth. I might have leg day on Monday and Thursdays, but they are different exercises/lifts. I'll do my squats/leg presses/toe raises on Monday - Thursdays are about leg extensions and leg curls.