Improved health, strength and performance are achieved through 1h training, twice a week. According to many studies, training less, hard and smart can have tremendous benefits on health, increasing over-all strength and performance.
After 3 years of hitting gym sometimes even twice a day, while attending school, having a job and other necessities, I decided to incline more to efficient approach. I had a few mentors who got me introduced into bodybuilding and work ethic which kept me resilient. After all, it was Dorian Yates who once said, “working hard but correctly” totally influenced the way I perceived every gym arrival and departure.
His heavy high-intensity work-outs crowned him undisputedly 6 times Mr. Olympia in a row, where he was known for his heavy high intense trainings and extreme muscle mass. Although, I would not call it “correctly” as this might vary from individual to individual, yet he made quite a point there.
The whole idea behind training 2h a week is to bring your body into optimal anabolic state where the body gets more productive, not forgetting proper regeneration. The most important thing to achieve anabolic state is consistency as building strong bodies take time under right procedure. The most efficient process applied, will be the one optimally distributing energy to bring better performance through better health and achieve better regeneration relevant for muscle and strength growth. Continue reading “The answer is efficiency.”