Do muscles need to be exercised every day

The weight of muscles has nothing to do with our daily exercise, but daily exercise can exercise the hardness of muscles and it is good for improving our body resistance, so it is good to exercise appropriately in daily life. Muscles can be increased by exercising every day, and the strength of muscles can be improved. Let’s learn about the benefits of exercising muscles every day.

Can I train my abdominal muscles every day?

Regarding the question of whether you can train your abdominal muscles every day, there are two situations:

1. Abdominal muscle training is not about weight, but quality. It doesn’t matter if you train every day.

Many people find that they don’t feel anything or feel their waist is sore after exercising their abdominal muscles every day, so they fall into a misunderstanding and think that abdominal muscles can be trained every day. The root cause of this misunderstanding is that people do not exercise their abdominal muscles thoroughly, use the wrong methods, and recover easily, which makes them think that abdominal muscles can be trained every day.

For example, when you train your abdominal muscles, you focus on weight instead of quality, and only train with your own bodyweight without adding any weight, so the quantity and intensity are not achieved. If you look at the structure of the abdominal muscles, it's like a piece of chocolate divided into 8 pieces, one by one. If you only exercise one or two of them (very small muscles) each time, the muscles will naturally recover faster. It's definitely okay to exercise every day.

In short, it’s only because the quality of your abdominal muscle training is not high enough and the stimulation is not sufficient that you need to do abdominal muscle training every day. Besides, if the quality of abdominal muscle training is not up to standard, no matter how much you do it, it will be useless. The movements are incomplete, the muscles are not fully contracted, and the results are poor.

2. It is not necessary to do real high-quality abdominal muscle training every day

In fact, if we can do high-quality abdominal muscle training every time, with the movements up to standard, sufficient intensity, and sufficient stimulation of the abdominal muscles, it is not advisable to train every day, because no matter how hard-working the abdominal muscles are, they still need rest, otherwise the lumbar spine will not be able to bear it. Besides, if you really want to achieve that kind of intensity, most people can't practice every day, nor do they need to practice hard every day because the effect has already been achieved.

Therefore, each abdominal muscle training exercise must include training of the upper and lower abdominal muscles, as well as the side abdominal muscles such as the external oblique muscles. You cannot just do one or two exercises over and over again; you must train comprehensively. In addition, if you have great abdominal muscles, you should reduce the frequency while focusing on the quality of exercise. You can complete waist and abdominal exercises by bearing weights, which can effectively increase the size of your abdominal muscles and improve their shape.

In short, if the quality of abdominal muscle training is high, doing abdominal muscle training 2-3 times a week is ideal. Also, do not do more than eight sets of abdominal muscle training each time, and the total number of times should be less than 400.

The worst thing about muscle training is "three days of hard work and two days of lazing around"

Muscle training requires rest, because muscle training consumes a lot of nutrients. After exercise, after proper rest, the nutrients in the muscles are quickly replenished, and the amount replenished will be more than what is consumed. We call this "super recovery."

"Super recovery" allows muscles to obtain more nutrients, making them more developed with more training. But if the muscles are not given enough time to replenish nutrients, they will not grow stronger than before.

However, the rest period should not be too long. It should be calculated based on the standard that the muscles have the ability to exercise again. Generally, 2-3 days is appropriate. After 2-3 days, if there is no continuous exercise stimulation, the exercise effects of the previous period will gradually fade away, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

Because muscles are also composed of various proteins, these muscle components are still in a dynamic state of constant consumption and replenishment. On the one hand, lack of exercise will lead to a lack of factors that stimulate muscle growth, and on the other hand, the substances that make up the muscles are constantly being consumed.