Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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ecle5c
ecle5c
Posts: 1,312
Joined: 2003/07/10
United States
2006/02/01, 08:12 PM
Everything I have ever read tells me that you should have between 30 seconds and max 2 minutes down time between sets when working out (assuming nothing out of the ordinary). When I work out I get drained after about my 6th excercise of 3 times each. (I do a chest/bi, back/tri, shoulder/trap, leg split). So basically I get 9 sets for each body part and am just beat so I do some abs and head home. The last few days though I have gotten a resurgence of energy about 10 minutes after I left the gym and almost went back because of it.

My question then is: are there any downfalls or drawbacks to taking 10-15 minutes of a break (maybe walk on the treadmill or somthing) during a workout and then keeping going?
Nyxtikal
Nyxtikal
Posts: 268
Joined: 2005/09/20
United States
2006/02/02, 01:49 AM
i usually will take a longer break inbetween body parts if i need it or inbetween exercises, but i will complete all of my sets for a given exercise without too long of a break. I never time my breaks, i just go by feel....if im doing really heavy squats, i'll take more time inbetween sets than if im something lighter