Rest is an important part of any workout regimen and is influenced by your specific goals. Your age, fitness level, and genetics can also affect rest needs.

How long are you resting between your sets in the gym? Do you even know, or do you just make it up as you go along? Maybe you don’t even take real rest periods (please say you do). Just as having rest ...

You collapse onto the bench between every set, thinking you’re giving your muscles the rest they need to perform well on the next round. But sitting during rest periods might be sabotaging your ...

In gyms across the country, it’s a familiar scene: one set of squats followed by five minutes of small talk. What most gym goers don’t realize is that those rest breaks aren’t just filler, they’re a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE REST BREAKS in between your sets during your workouts might be a bit of an afterthought. You finish ...

You don’t have to hobble around for days after every workout to build strength. The idea that muscle soreness equals muscle growth is one of the biggest myths in fitness, and it’s keeping people from ...

The 2-2-2 method focuses on effective volume. 'Muscle growth doesn't come from endless volume. It comes from effective volume, those high quality, close to failure reps that generate enough mechanical ...