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It's great that you mention working out every day keeps you in a positive mode and also shows a sign of discipline as well, but the truth is that when it comes to "building muscle" being disciplined means that you are able to keep yourself from over-working but staying consistent enough to be working out 3 times per week.
Comparing Aerobic to Anaerobic activity and their effects on the human body is like comparing apples to poultry, it's just not the same.
Bodybuilding is about achieving your goal in the most productive way possible without spending lots of wasted time doing it and you can't get there if your body is constantly being taxed to a level where it's not able to recover when it really counts.
So the point of my article is that if you aren't feeling well enough on a given day to lift an extremely high amount of weight to begin with, in addition to adding more weight than you were previously lifting the last time you did that muscle group, then it's a good idea to perhaps take a break that day and come back when you know you are more capable.
You have to understand that in order to stimulate muscle growth you must constantly make progress in terms of the amount of weight that you lift so it's critical that you're at your best when the time comes to workout or else it's a wasted effort.. you're just going through the motions and stressing the body for almost nothing.
Muscles don't get stronger by lifting the same amount over and over. They only get stronger and then bigger by being forced to lift heavier and heavier amounts of weight or resistance.
Lifting heavy weights doesn't just burn calories and provide cardiovascular benefits like aerobics do.. it taxes your body's central nervous system, depletes your ATP levels along with the fact that it expends it's resources breaking down protein into amino acids to be converted to new muscle fiber.
In essence.. when your body is telling you that it's not up to par you need to heed it's advice and regroup for another day when progress is at hand.
Again aerobics is different.. for the most part you should be able to do activities on a daily basis without having issues. Aerobics are great for burning calories by immobilizing body-fat through oxidation, raising heart rate for improved cardiovascular development and it also provides ways of flushing out most of the body's internal systems.
None of the things I mentioned about aerobics are extremely taxing to the body as long as proper hydration is taking place, therefore only daily recovery is needed in most cases unless the person is a beginner.
Most of the time if you are not feeling that great and you go ahead and do your aerobic activity, you end up feeling better afterwords. Unfortunately that's not going to be the case when lifting heavy weights for a 30-40 minute session.
So I agree with you that when it comes to cardiovascular type workouts, it's best to do them on a daily basis if possible.
If anyone else that read my article was confused, hopefully this has given you a better understanding. If it has not.. let me know :)