Longest you've ever taken off working out?

[94Ryan94]

What is the longest period of time you have ever taken off working out and the reason for and how it made you feel and also if you lost much in terms of size/strength... Mine would have to be 3 weeks of complete inactivity, before hand i was training hard for 3months solid consistently with a tortures diet and workout regime especially with legs and back, then it got to a point where i felt like a demented robot that lurched about in pain with my body falling to pieces, i would sleep straight after any work.. something had to be done. I felt as if i was close to being clinically retarded, i had a complete different outlook on life, i think 3months of training like a pro on roids being only a casual 17 year old developing college student has serious negative impacts on mental health.. i felt like a zombie lurching from the pits of hell. Everyone saw a massive change in my face they thought i was seriously ill! In terms of size/strength, little or close to none, reps went down but not poundage, gained weight.

[Georgep93]

Longest I went was about a month and a half and it was horrible. It took me a while to get my form back 100% and lift what I was lifting (about 2 months) and then I started making proper gains again.

I took that time out because I went on 2 holidays... beach body slowly deteriorated with all that booze!

[Sackaram]

6 days, a deload week.

[Newmanzz]

2 months, spent those months high as **** everyday, decided to stop, started going to the gym again

1st session i decided to deadlift, brb puke for my first and only time

[SDtrucker]

2 months while i was down south running chopper on a custom silage chopping crew. Worst mistake of my life... Money was great($17 an hour) but 2 months of sh^t food and drinks will take you backwards fasttt!

[OmegaMurray]

Like 3 days because of College gym not being open :/

[itwasntme184]

10 days, after never going longer than 3 in 26 months of working out.

Was a euro-trip kinda thing last month

[Devonjk]

2 weeks

[Mobster1995]

about 2 months

cause i felt demotivated and became lazier also eat so much high calorific food now im back on track

feelsgoodman

[mully8]

About 2 weeks. Gym Closed and then I had RUgby Nationals the following week so I couldn't work out for that week already.

[nealbha]

3 days...Which i think was around hurricane sandy, thats also when one of my seasons ended so no practice plus no access to gym.
idk if its just me but when i don't workout or do some sort of physical activity i feel like shyt.

[Shredthetics]

longest break I've taken in 4 years was 3 days, and even then I did some bodyweight stuff or cardio.
No being active or exercising is a terrible feeling imo.

I feel fat if I skip even one day srs.

[strangeclouds]

12-13months. On average (been lifting for 15yrs, so yeah, I have a viable average), I only lift about 6 - 8 months every year. I take breaks all the time. I just started again 30 days ago after a 5-6month lay off.

[grux12]

12-13months. On average (been lifting for 15yrs, so yeah, I have a viable average), only lift about 6 - 8 months every year. I take breaks all the time. I just started again 30 days ago after a 5-6month lay off.

Easily beats my record of 4 months. I lost 28 lbs, almost all my strength, and my positive outlook on life.



To be fair, I had an 18 inch tapeworm and four other parasites at the time.

[Gilgamesh13]

almost 4 months, surgery ... lost about 10% of my strength and 40% of my size (very low appetite)

[strangeclouds]

Easily beats my record of 4 months. I lost 28 lbs, almost all my strength, and my positive outlook on life.



To be fair, I had an 18 inch tapeworm and four other parasites at the time.

Damn bro.. hope you're good to go now, and got them gains back.



After 4mos of time off I begin losing gains. After 7mos, generally my arms will have shrank back down to 16.5" and I won't be able to push any more than 315. But then the muscle memory is always insane. I went from the above and 235lbs to 255lbs in 30 days and my arms are back at 18-3/4" and idk what I can press, but I can definitely bang out some sets of 10 on Incline. Provided, I did run some IronMagLabs products to accelerate the whole muscle memory process, but it really save me a lot of time in getting back to where I was.

[ALBoldt]

1.5-2 years, RC injury.

[grux12]

Damn bro.. hope you're good to go now, and got them gains back.

Thanks big guy. Everything's pretty much sorted itself out, even though my endocrinologist says that my 50 year old menopausal mother has more testosterone than I do. Apparently, one of my parasites dicked with my hormones.

After 4mos of time off I begin losing gains. After 7mos, generally my arms will have shrank back down to 16.5" and I won't be able to push any more than 315. But then the muscle memory is always insane. I went from the above and 235lbs to 255lbs in 30 days and my arms are back at 18-3/4" and idk what I can press, but I can definitely bang out some sets of 10 on Incline. Provided, I did run some IronMagLabs products to accelerate the whole muscle memory process, but it really save me a lot of time in getting back to where I was.

Why do you take so much time off? Just giving your CNS a break?

[strangeclouds]

Why do you take so much time off? Just giving your CNS a break?

Lots of injuries leads to demotivation and fear. Fear to push too hard.. and it's hard for me to just get back into it like I was before I injured myself at 20yo.

[grux12]

Lots of injuries leads to demotivation and fear. Fear to push too hard.. and it's hard for me to just get back into it like I was before I injured myself at 20yo.

But... N0-L1M1TZ, remember?

[KyleMQuinn]

Week. Anything more I'll run or something assuming I'm not by a gym

[Tb0282]

one week.

[neverquit2012]

took off 6 weeks this past summer due to hernia surgery. Most depressing 6 weeks of my life. Somehow i didn't lose any size or strength though.

[DanTD]

took off 6 weeks this past summer due to hernia surgery. Most depressing 6 weeks of my life. Somehow i didn't lose any size or strength though.

You'd be surprised how little size you loose even for a moderately extended period of time out. I took 2 months out because of various problems and lost very little size, although I am still trying to get back to 100% strength.

[Singh1996]

4 months

R/C tear

Technically still shouldn't even be pumping iron, going to see an extremely good physiotherapist on Monday.

Haven't worked shoulders in 6 months

[Tommerz22]

Maybe 4 days

[Ensix]

A week.

[cjowns76]

3 days, I broke my wrist 2 years ago and it took me that long to learn how to squat with it. It appears I've been lucky so far injury wise browsing this thread.