New Study Answers How Much Rest is Needed Between Bench Press Sets

For anyone who has ever taken too long between reps at the gym while scrolling Instagram, according to a recent study, you could actually be maximizing your gains. That's right: researchers have found that to build strength and muscle, longer rest periods between reps are actually optimal.

The findings were published in the Journal of Sports Sciences late last year in a paper titled: "Optimizing mechanical performance in the bench press." Over the course of the study, researchers found that for peak performance...