Minimum rest between workouts ?

[Ed]

Does age have a big effect on the amount of recovery time required ?

Depends on the type of recovery time you're talking about.

Recovery between sets - Depends on fitness, so no.
Recovery between sessions - Perhaps. I'm 32 and I give a week between hitting the same groups but I'm a heavy lifter. I know people in their 50's and 60's that jog every day. I think condition is the most important factor, not age.

 

[Sutters]

Taken from random googleage..

'negatives

You are much stronger on the negative portion of the pull up. In other words, you can lower much more weight than you can lift. Just because you can't pull yourself up doesn't mean you can't lower yourself.

Put a bench or stool underneath you and kick yourself up with your feet and then lower yourself slowly to a count of four or five. Continue until you reach negative failure (you can no longer lower yourself under control). If you have a training partner, your partner can help you up.

Suppose all you can do is four reps. Your progress might look something like this:

Workout 1: 4 reps, 4 negatives
Workout 2: 5 reps, 4 negatives
Workout 3: 6 reps, 3-4 negatives
Workout 4: 7 reps, 2-3 negatives
Workout 5: 8 reps, 1-2 negative
Workout 6: 9 reps, 1 negative
Workout 7: 10 reps
Workout 8: 11 reps
Workout 9: 12 reps.

I've seen many people go from ZERO reps to sets of ten or twelve in a matter of weeks using this technique.'

 

[Hlebio]

i'm a egar beaver! ok i will cut back!

Eager is good dude, nothing wrong with that.

Just make sure you are doing things right.. as people have suggested read the sticky in this section on bodybuilding and/or google for some routines/advice.

Plenty of great sites.

 

[Ed]

While on the subject of negatives, from personal experience, you'll get to complete a full rep sooner by assisting the weight.