Building your training around increased training volume

You COULD limit your rest between sets and do all your lifting in the form of circuits/metabolic conditioning workouts in the vain of hoping to burn more fat...

Building your training around increased training volume

Or you could read this post and focus on building your training around increased training volume over time and resting enough to do so

PSSST, that’s the better option!!

Train to build muscle, eat/move to burn fat

One of the trends in the fitness industry is to make things way more complicated than they need to be!

This is because selling people on simple, but effective, methods are not sexy and doesn’t sound that cool.

For example if I told you to rest for 37 seconds between sets to maximise force output and optimize hormone efficiency, your going to be way more excited than if I just say “rest until you feel ready for your next set”

The most ass- backwards part is that it can be that simple and you can actually *miss out on the gainz if you don’t rest long enough*

Yeah you may sweat more with shorter rest periods, but this doesn’t mean it’s better for growing muscle mass. Quite the opposite as you can see demonstrated in the graphic.

One of the hardest principles to understand in the gym is realising ‘harder does not mean more effective’ (or effective at all). You must be very specific with what you do in the gym to reach a certain outcome!

REMEMBER... use the Weight room to maintain/ build muscle mass, not to burn the most calories. Use your diet/nutrition to restrict calories and lose body fat, as it’s much more efficient use of your time!

Specificity- it’s important