It’s easy to let your mind wander when you are resting after a hard set. But relaxing for too long will see you lose your mental focus and let your muscles go off the boil, compromising your efforts to achieve muscle exhaustion. It’s very important to time your rest periods with a stop watch. Your rest time between weight exercises or sprints is a variable that can influence your training result. When you are training to improve relative strength you will need long rests to allow your nervous system to recover but if you are doing fat loss or hypertrophy your rests should be shorter. The type of exercises can also influence rest periods. Single joint moves such as biceps curls require less time for recovery, while big whole-body moves such as Deadlifts or squats take longer.

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