You Need: To Factor in Your Fitness Level While training goals help determine the ideal rest period, so should your current fitness level. Fairly new to strength training? “You’ll benefit from more rest between sets so you don’t push yourself to the point of nausea,” says Rogers, “whereas someone who is in very good shape can rest less without much of a problem.” For beginners, taking more time to recover (without letting heart rate and body temperature fully return to resting levels) offers some additional benefits too, notes Fabio Comana, faculty instructor at San Diego State University and director of continuing education at the National Academy of Sports Medicine. “For more inexperienced exercisers, longer recoveries can promote self-efficacy,” he says. In other words, if an extra minute or two of rest allows you to knock out that last set, you’ll have more confidence to stick with the workout long-term—which, of course, is the best way to see results, no matter what your goal.
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