What if more gym days are killing your gains?
Could training less help you build more muscle?
Are you working harder just to recover worse?
Strength training over 40 isn’t about cramming five or six workouts into your week. It’s about creating enough stimulus to build muscle without burying your body in fatigue.
Coach, former pro physique competitor, and Optimize Your Body host Martin Silva explains why fewer, higher-quality lifting sessions can improve hypertrophy, recovery, strength, and body recomp.
Learn how training frequency and volume work together, why stopping one to three reps before failure can produce better muscle-building results, and how mechanical tension, tempo, and technique matter more than destroying yourself in every workout.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Why more gym days backfire
2:00 - From high volume to better results
5:45 - Minimum effective volume and frequency
9:50 - Mechanical tension, tempo, and technique
15:10 - Staying shy of muscular failure
19:56 - Choosing three days or six
25:46 - Better activities for recovery days
28:09 - Mobility, injuries, and changing beliefs
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