answer:A very quick response @ninjacolin – my Husband is a qualified Trainer, but not available for a while – I think first of all, these kinds of recovery periods are undoubtedly individual. There are bound to be average ‘generic’ periods, but they would not be optimal. A first piece of advice would likely be to do some training and simply see how things feel. If you are training to ‘burn’ point, then 2–3 days will permit healing of torn cells, then continued training will build strength. It would, I think, be an unnecessary ‘shortcut’ to use figures gleaned from averages. The optimum way to gain overall fitness, is to train to around 75% of your capacity, frequently, with short recovery gaps. Pushing yourself to ‘do as many pushups as you can’, is something to do once a week, for testing or recording; not on a daily or frequent basis. Hope this gives some help.