Recovery and post workout rest is an important part of muscle building! Your body goes through cycles and without understanding these cycles, you are likely not to gain the muscle growth that you could be.
Skinny to muscle can be accomplished through a positive cycle of diet, exercise and rest.
So how much post workout recovery is enough? Knowing how much can be tricky for those skinny guys looking to muscle up! Hitting the gym is easy when we feel good, and this often leads to the non-rest cycle that creates setbacks.
Here are a few tips that will help you with setting up your recovery, post workout!

• Understanding that your workout should be very similar to how long you rest.
  This is especially true when you have had a particularly intense workout.
  Remember if you are pushing those muscles hard, they need longer to recover from the stress.
  The body must have time to heal those tiny little tears as well as build a bigger, stronger muscle! Hard workouts should rest 2-3 days while less intense can be conducted every other days!
• Without fail, a solid night of rest.
  Most people needs about 8 hours of sleep to heal recover and rejuvenate properly.
  While some people can get by on 6 hours, try 8 for fun! It really makes a different in your recovery post workout and muscle growth process.
  The amount of sleep you get and when you get it is also important.
  Also turn the cell phone and computer off, uninterrupted sleep is beneficial not waking up every hour to take phone calls!