More people, especially as they get older, are finding that 5 or 6 days a week of lifting feels excessive, leading to so much fatigue and soreness, it's no longer fun. Sometimes they just give up. Others simply don't have time to train almost daily. If they are all or none thinkers, they might figure, "If I can't follow the ideal schedule to maximize results, why bother at all?" They don't realize how many time efficient training methods are out there. Training only 3 days a week is one of them. They also don't realize you can make excellent gains with only 3 workouts a week. And there are more options for 3 day schedules than you might imagine...

Will your muscles shrivel up and your strength plummet if you take a week of light or easy lifting, or even take a week of total rest, or could an intentional training break actually improve your long-term gains and reduce risk of injury and burnout? If the latter is true, then how often should you back off, what should you back off of (weight, reps, volume, intensity) and how long should you do it?

When you’re feeling burned out from a long stretch of hard training and you suspect you have over-training syndrome, there are many strategies and tactics you can apply to stimulate recovery and start making progress again, and to prevent over-training in the future.

You've probably heard that you have to lift weights with intensity to make muscle gains. You may have also heard in recent years that you have to do a fairly high volume (more exercises [...]

Time-efficient training is a vitally important topic because lack of time is one of the most commonly reported barriers to exercising consistently. For many people, "no time to train" is their number one problem, or at least it's their biggest perceived problem. I say "perceived" because if they knew about the time-saving training strategies you're about to learn in this blog post, they wouldn't see "no time" as a problem anymore.