Time for rest and recovery

The recovery phase is very important because it helps in bodybuilding muscle growth. The complete and incomplete recoveries active, passive, are the four types of recovery during exercise.

A fitness training causes several types of fatigue. Muscle fatigue is the most famous, but it is not always that the body will have a harder time recovering. For the body, which is often the hardest part is to recover from joint fatigue (that is to say, fatigue due to tensions suffered by your joints, tendons, etc..), But also sometimes nervous fatigue, if your workout is based on heavy exercises, or includes many intensification techniques.

Recovery is an essential phase of muscle growth. It is during this phase that adaptation occurs and the muscles grow. The recovery is the central point of progression, as well as training.

Recovery begins when strength training, between sets. There are 5 ways to precede recovery:

- Active recovery: a long and very light for an antagonist muscle during the session series. Here, there is a recovery which in order to allow you to continue your exercise a little more effective on the next series. It is, therefore, an optimized recovery between sets.

 
- Passive recovery: we do nothing at all, it sits waiting for the next series or the next training

- Full recovery: one year again when we have fully caught his breath and heart rate returned to normal;

- Incomplete recovery: if you do not yet 100% recovered from the previous series and that is always a little breathless ... it is a technique to make increased training harder.

- Scrub: often used in collective sports, a little light training session low intensity improves recovery after a tiring match, promoting blood circulation and the elimination of metabolic waste.

Between sessions, the recovery is to allow the muscles to grow, but also the body to recover from general fatigue produced by the sport and to strengthen joints.

This last point is crucial because it is often the joint and tendon recovery is longer. If it is not enough, it can cause injury, such as tendonitis. This type of injury is a limiting factor in bodybuilding because it can stop training for several weeks.

And there is also the principle of a reminder in order to drain the energy reserves between two workouts, making a very light session reminder to drain energy reserves for.

Finally, we discuss the issue of rest time between sets, which is crucial to the type of work you want to do (strength, endurance, ...) and can be used to modulate the intensity of your workout weights.