Rest days for maintaining muscle while losing?

SailorKnightWing
SailorKnightWing Posts: 875 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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?

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  • rejectuf
    rejectuf Posts: 487 Member
    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
    alyssagb1 Posts: 353 Member
    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
    piperdown44 Posts: 958 Member
    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.

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