Are Long Rest Periods Out of Style? Welcome to the Training Takeaway Newsletter by Data Driven Strength! Zac Robinson here. The common narrative surrounding rest periods and muscle growth in the evidence based community has been - more is better. A hallmark study by Schoenfeld and colleagues is commonly cited to support this point, demonstrating superior muscle growth with 3 minutes versus 1 minute of inter-set rest. However, a recent preprint meta-analysis by Singer et al. challenges this...