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A week to ten days is ideal rest time for your body.
Your body is a very adaptive mechinism. When you put stress on your muscles they grow. They adapt. If you do the same workout routine for 8 weeks straight, your body will become accustomed to that routine. When you rest for 7 to 10 days it thinks that that is the way it's going to be, so when you start working out again, you shock the hell out of it and start growing again.
Your body is a very adaptive mechinism. When you put stress on your muscles they grow. They adapt. If you do the same workout routine for 8 weeks straight, your body will become accustomed to that routine. When you rest for 7 to 10 days it thinks that that is the way it's going to be, so when you start working out again, you shock the hell out of it and start growing again.
