Rhonda Patrick· PhD
but your body literally needs time to replenish the fossil creatine stores in order to produce you know the ATP to do that next set your nervous system needs time to rest and so that's why you know Dr shold recommended rest up to anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes again based on how much weight you're lifting you know if you're doing failure on each set you might need to do longer if you're doing one to three reps in reserve you might need to take a little bit shorter rest but two to two to 3 minutes is probably the minimum anywhere up to five and he really emphasized just don't rush the rest period especially when training for strength because your goal on each of those sets is to lift the maximum amount of weight that you can you don't want to it's not just about fatiguing the muscle it's you know you have to be ready to you know if you lift 95% of your one rep max on you know this set you want to be able to do that the next set need adequate recovery to be able to do that particularly if your goal is to improve strength or even muscle power as well could be um similar right