Building Muscle: How Often Should You Really Lift?

You want muscle fast so you train five, six, or even seven days a week, thinking that the more you do, the faster you’ll see results. But it doesn’t take long before you’re sore all the time and your progress grinds to a halt, forcing you to scale back your workouts, only hitting a muscle once or twice a week, and this is the frequency most of us then stay with indefinitely.

The thing is though, our impulse to use a higher training frequency isn’t wrong. It’s the way we went about it that was. Learn more about High-Frequency training: how to do it, its benefits, and more!