If rest days are required between working the same muscle group how do these guys get so big? A scaffolder can’t rest his lats or deltoids and is working at least five days a week. Sometimes seven. How does this work?
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Body builders are trying to optimize muscle growth/tone. This means pushing their bodies to the absolute limit (which causes damage) and then allowing time to recover (when the body heals that damage, resulting in growth). It is a plan of extremes designed for optimal results.
Manual laborers are not pushing themselves to extremes every day. The are working _hard_ but they are working within their limits. This means they don’t need the recovery period afterwards to rebuild the damage done by their labor.
Because one is a science based optimal approach for the *most effective* muscle growth while managing fatigue while also (typically) pushing those muscles to failure to at least some extent.
Construction guys are still going to build muscle because they use them, but it’s not going to be anywhere near as efficient as a structured regimented program that a decent level bodybuilder would use.
It’s just apples to oranges really.
All of your assumptions are wrong here.
You don’t need days of rest between working the same muscle group, many powerlifters will bench several days in a row.
Construction work also isn’t the same as working out. Lifting weight is way more acutely taxing than construction.
And finally strength is specific but the guys who lift are almost always going to be stronger than some one who doesn’t at the same body weight, regardless of their job.
Dont know but i did saw this video (couldnt find it) of a bodybuilder joining the construction team for a day and he left early cause he was gassed out 😅 he didnhave the best estatics tho
Are they though? 99 percent of all manual labor people I see are out of shape
A job that involves heavy lifting can be great for muscle building and some people would consider every day to be a free workout. On the other hand, a highly physical job, if not handled well, can be devastating to the pursuit of muscular gains, and can actually cause you to lose muscle.
to be fair a lot of the guys I worked with on site who were jacked also worked out at the gym.
Isolated explosive strength vs general enduring strength.
Both require adequate sleep, however in my experience the fatigue associated with general enduring strength is much more easy to adapt to.
However with isolating muscles and using their explosive strength with the specific purpose of building mass, one must never adapt. Either you’re pushing personal limits or changing how the muscle is worked. The lack of adaptation means a relatively constant level of fatigue.
When I was the in the military and constantly running, lifting, or doing calisthenics it was always something different or always requiring more of myself. The fatigue I felt in day 1 of boot camp was no different than my last PT session 6 years later. It was familiar but I would argue *not* less.
However when I worked on a trails/wilderness crew for the Forest Service for a few summers the fatigue became both familiar *and* less because it was generally the same output requirement day on day (with the exception of outlier days that lasted longer or were abnormally hotter).
I used to work construction, let me tell you, it took me months before I stopped being very sore. You still wake up with aches and pains. The thing is though you start to develop endurance muscles rather than bodybuilding muscles. Those are the muscles you gain from high reps with low to medium weight.
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