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My trainer told me to work out with weights only every other day because the muscles need a day to rest and grow in between workouts.So i just swim or walk on the days I don't do my resistance bands.

[HonnyBrown]

On 7/28/2014 sidsmom said:

We lift heavy things every day. Groceries, wet laundry...even pushing furniture around to vacuum, so when people are worried about 'every other day' routine for weights, it's kinda silly. Unless you're practicing Sports Periodization or doing 1RM, our bodies are designed to be moved, stretched, challenged every day. Yoga is probably more weight-bearing than anything...all without a piece of iron anywhere. Doesn't body weight count?

Women are guilty of this...Tracey Anderson, a celebrity trainer, encourages her clients not to lift more than 8lbs....doesn't a baby weigh more than that? See? It's kinda silly.

Growing up on a farm, we had to do heavy-weighted chores every day....we never worried about 'tacking our muscles"...you just did it to make a living.

sids, you make some great points!

Not all of us are corn-fed farm boys. Without that constant muscle stimulation, it gets lost. To get those strong bodies back, one has to do some sort of strength training.

While I don't agree with an 8 pound max, I do agree with every other day training, with the exception of abs. Abs take 24 hours for muscle repair and everything else takes 48 hours.

[sidsmom]

HonnyBrown: you brought up a good comment..."constant muscle stimulation". The point I was making was....a large % of the workforce doesn't have that luxury of 'resting muscles'. Does a mechanic lifting tires all day take the next day off? Or a daycare worker holding the weight of babies/children all day take the next day off? Or closest to me...does an aerobic instructor, teaching 5 classes a day, working up a sweat @ each one, take the next day off? Probably not. Your bodies adapts w/ constant muscle stimulation. Using resistance bands/weights/body weight (abs) exercises are constant muscle stimulation...daily if you choose...just like workers using their bodies daily, as well. Use lesser weight, but the constant (daily) muscle stimulation is important.

[focksie]

On 7/29/2014 sidsmom said:

HonnyBrown: you brought up a good comment..."constant muscle stimulation". The point I was making was....a large % of the workforce doesn't have that luxury of 'resting muscles'. Does a mechanic lifting tires all day take the next day off? Or a daycare worker holding the weight of babies/children all day take the next day off? Or closest to me...does an aerobic instructor, teaching 5 classes a day, working up a sweat @ each one, take the next day off? Probably not. Your bodies adapts w/ constant muscle stimulation. Using resistance bands/weights/body weight (abs) exercises are constant muscle stimulation...daily if you choose...just like workers using their bodies daily, as well. Use lesser weight, but the constant (daily) muscle stimulation is important.

Everyday jobs -- even if they are physically demanding -- are not the same as weight workouts, at least not the kind of weight lifting I am used to. Muscle fibers are microscopically torn after a taxing workout with weights that is designed to target specific muscles and the body needs rest to recuperate. The process of tearing down muscle fibers and rebuilding/rejuvenating the muscle is what weight workouts are all about. The body needs this rest to rebuild the fibers. If you constantly microscopically tear muscle fibers day in and day out without adequate rest to rebuild them, it will likely result in at least a partial muscle tear.

Unless...you are talking about a light workout with weights that will not unduly stress the body or microscopically tear down muscle fibers. If a person only does light workouts with weights (5-8 lb dumbbells for example), they can do weights and resistance every day.

[HonnyBrown]

On 7/29/2014 sidsmom said:

HonnyBrown: you brought up a good comment..."constant muscle stimulation". The point I was making was....a large % of the workforce doesn't have that luxury of 'resting muscles'. Does a mechanic lifting tires all day take the next day off? Or a daycare worker holding the weight of babies/children all day take the next day off? Or closest to me...does an aerobic instructor, teaching 5 classes a day, working up a sweat @ each one, take the next day off? Probably not. Your bodies adapts w/ constant muscle stimulation. Using resistance bands/weights/body weight (abs) exercises are constant muscle stimulation...daily if you choose...just like workers using their bodies daily, as well. Use lesser weight, but the constant (daily) muscle stimulation is important.

Sids, you do aerobics, 5 classes a day, almost daily. Isn't your body used to that? What about a new mechanic who moves 4 tires at a time on his first day? That's something he has to adjust to.

If you added another class or some light weights to your classes, you would feel it, no?