Rest days for maintaining muscle while losing?

SailorKnightWing

I know that you need rest days while building muscle, but are they necessary when you're strength training to maintain muscle while losing weight?

rejectuf

Rest days are important, yes. If you don't take rest days, you'll find the strength training will suck even more than it already does on a cut.

alyssagb1

rejectuf wrote: »

Rest days are important, yes. If you don't take rest days, you'll find the strength training will suck even more than it already does on a cut.

Agreed.

piperdown44

Yes, while you may not be building new muscles, the muscles you do have (on a deficit while weight training) still need to repair themselves and that requires rest.