When weight lifting what do you do between sets ?

I need to think of something to do since resting to 3 mins is such a waste of time. But longer rest bigger grains

I started timing my rest breaks since i know that if I start fucking around on the internet a 90 second rest can easily become a 5 minute rest, and my workout becomes 40 minutes longer completely unnecessarily.

On the flipside, if you have a finite amount of time to workout then longer rest = less volume = less gains

Dick around on my phone, mostly here. I use the timer on my phone so it all works out, no pun intended. I do 1 minute rests myself. I wonder if that's too short of a time.

I've spent a stupid amount of time looking at this topic and here's your answer:

Thanks for that. I'm still relatively new to the whole thing. I think timing them has helped me more in a disciplinary way. Before I'd just mess around on my phone or computer and the times would vary wildly between sets. I'm still not perfect with it, but I'm so much better about not wasting time and keeping things more consistent than I was before.

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I've spent a stupid amount of time looking at this topic and here's your answer:

Time you rest is completely arbitrary. You should rest for however long you need to recover between sets. This will depend on the exercise and the goal. Smaller muscles for hypertrophy movements require less rest. Bigger muscles and compound lifts and particular for strength - more rest.

If you're doing some lateral raises or wrist curls or something, you may only need 30 seconds of rest.

If you are doing squats, you'll need a few minutes.

If your primary goal is maximal strength, e.g. you're a powerlifter and you're doing squats, you may need upwards of 6 to 10 minutes between sets.

In summary, go again when you are ready to complete the work you've set out. If you feel completely prepared to hit those 10 lat pulldowns again and you're just randomly waiting for the timer to hit 0, maybe just go already.

A caveat I will say is that keeping your rests consistent gives you a better idea of your current conditioning. If you are setting out 2 minutes to rest between each set of squats but every time the timer runs out you are still out of breath, you know your conditioning sucks and you need to work on that.

Thanks for that. I'm still relatively new to the whole thing. I think timing them has helped me more in a disciplinary way. Before I'd just mess around on my phone or computer and the times would vary wildly between sets. I'm still not perfect with it, but I'm so much better about not wasting time and keeping things more consistent than I was before.

I sit on the equipment I'm using and vaguely look around the room, being careful to not make eye-contact with anyone. I was taught as a young child that if you must fight someone if you lock eyes with them in a gym.

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