When all
recovery factors are considered (mental hormonal, etc) perhaps
longer time
frames past a 48 hour muscle
recovery are beneficial, particularly for hard gainers.
You'll immedately notice that the crouching animation is just one
frame long, that there is no transition to blocking and that the only two big animations for state changing are the
recovery animation and both jump animations (which anyway have repeated
frames, reducing the number of resources needed).