The importance of laziness in a sucessful strength training program

Seems kind of paradoxical.  You see on youtube guys just going all out.   Grunting.  Breathing heavy.  Muscles pumped with blood.  But all that working out is just half the battle. 

So I'm going to just state it like it's some fundamental law:  Strength is more of a function of your central nervous system firing off electrical impulses to muscles rapidly and efficiently more so than any muscular development that you're trying elicit from training at the gym.

So how do you acquire central nervous system superiority?  Do nothing.  Rest.  Spend time living life. When you take time off from working out, your soul and body feels like it's being replenished.  What's the point of all this working out if you can't use your muscles to live life?

How long should you rest?  48-96 hours. There.  There's your answer.  I'm always going on like some crazed lunatic like I'm some Mary Poppins paradigm of efficiency, so I'll just cut to the chase and give you your answer.  How you input those rest ranges is up to you. You do 48 hours rest when you want muscular development.  When your nervous system is kind of frazzled, that is when you can't move your limbs like you're afflicted with cerebral palsy, you should take a 72-96 hour rest.  It's true your muscular development will wither away with 72-96 hours rest ranges, but your central nervous system is acquiring the rest it needs to make strength gains, so the next time you workout you might make a strength gain or you might stay at the same strength level.  Then maybe you should rest 48 hours and hit the gym again, and then maybe you might make your strength gain.

When you rest, you might want to take to the act of walking like the dalai lama of strength training below suggests.  This may help you burn some fat.