Am I missing out on potential gains by taking too much rest time between sets?

every second rested is a rep wasted

>>76409779 (OP)
If your goal is hypertrophy, you want to exhaust the muscles. So resting longer is counterproductive - you should instead exhaustionmaxx and superset or drop set. But if you still go to failure, it's merely temporally inefficient but doesnt affect any of the three factors for muscle growth.
For strength training in the lower rep range, you NEED the rest to sufficiently neurologically recover in between sets. Otherwise, you risk bad form.

>>76409779 (OP)
>resting between sets
ngmi.

>>76409779 (OP)

>>76409835
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>>76409835
this

>>76409779 (OP)
Rest is important for hypertrophy, I believe I recall learning from a study that rest periods of 2 minutes or greater are associated with more hypertrophy. If you need less than 2 minutes, the exercise is likely not intense enough. Although, muscle groups that are primarily composed of type 1 fibers (calves, forearms, abdominals and postural muscles) likely respond better to higher volume at lower rest periods.

test

>>76410365
When I was running a cycle my recover between days was higher but my recovery between sets was so much worse