Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

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random q:

Anyone know how much intensity / length of workout matters for strength workouts vs overall volume? 

E.g. if I workout 4 days/week and lift a total of X lbs, what changes if I lift the same X lbs over 6 days but do shorter workouts each day?

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Volume is the primary driver of strength/hypertrophy, so you should expect those to be roughly equivalent.

Benefit of increasing frequency is enabling higher quality (ie your 8th working set of squats probably won’t be as good as the 1st) and enabling you to recover from more volume overall

Here’s a long article with much more nuance and links to studies in case that’s up your alley

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Here’s a long article with much more nuance and links to studies in case that’s up your alley

https://www.strongerbyscience.com/frequency-muscle/