Resting/Pausing During Workout In Order To Complete It--OK or not?

I am working through foundation 1. Especially for the upper body workouts, I can complete all the reps, but not without taking a 60 second recovery breather in between the latter sets of an single exercise. Is this still to be considered "completing" the exercise, or is part of the mastery involve doing the exercise at the pace shown in the videos with no rest? 

What about same question with rests in between the different upperbody exercises? Or do you need to watch the videos back to back with no rests?

 

Thanks!

HI Peter, resting on the set without doing nothing is not the correct approach. the rest must be used as active recovery by using the integrated mobility in between the working sets.

Ok, specifically the one I have most trouble with is PE2 with pushups and Xiaopeng Forward. The Xiaopeng Forward is not very restful! Maybe I just am using too much weight?

How much weight are you using? 5 to 10 pounds is plenty. 

Once you have the weight adjusted, the idea is to find the step that you can complete without additional rest. Continue switching back and forth between Pushups and Xiaopengs until every set is complete, sticking with the follow along video. 

When you trained Incline Pushups and German Arm Swings, did you take additional rest?

 

Everett and Alessandro both make good points. once you rest during a set, that set is considered terminated. if you come down from a plank or an L-sit, just like you’re done moving while doing a push up, you’re done. nothing wrong with that! just, if you are at that point where muscular failure is occuring, you’re not really doing “conditioning”. you’re just going to failure. conditioning happens when you contol the tempo, form and stay consistent to create a “rhythm”. you can practice how to spend only as much energy as possible on a given exercise by focusing on your breath. also, if the xiaopeng aint at least 5lbs (like Everett pointed out) you ain’t trying hard enough 

No rest, strenght-mobility-strenght-mobility... when you are done with an exercise then you can rest 2-3 minutes and proceed with the next exercise.

no i didnt need rest with inclined.

ok ill stay at current step until i can do it with no rest. thanks for the feedback!

i would be curious for a bit more on this though:

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 just, if you are at that point where muscular failure is occuring, you’re not really doing “conditioning”. you’re just going to failure. conditioning happens when you contol the tempo, form and stay consistent to create a “rhythm”. you can practice how to spend only as much energy as possible on a given exercise by focusing on your breath. 

can you say more on failure vs conditioning? aren't we trying to be at the step that brings us to failure by the end of the exercise?

also, any concrete tips on how spend less energy by focusing on your breath?

Conditioning is a concept that you develop with your schedule by manipulating training parameters week over week, month after months and it represents the ability to reproduce a movement which requires technical abilities or strength ability whenever you want.it represents the end of a journey in terms of nervous system education and joint preparation.

Failure is a concept relative to the single set.