Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about the

optimal amount of exercise or volume that women need for muscle growth.

Hopefully by now you're sold on the idea of building muscle. It is

truly the best thing that we can invest in for our health, for our longevity, for our

body composition, for our bone density, all the things.

So I wanted to create a podcast of practical takeaways for you to create a hypertrophy routine or a muscle building routine that helps you minimize strain on your body that is a minimal time commitment while still seeing great results, a working smarter not

harder approach. Here's the bottom line up front. More is not always better and

if you've listened to the podcast you know that I firmly believe that I've seen it in my own

body I've seen it in so many of you ever remember more is not always better

sometimes adding more resistance training sets may improve results, but ironically, you

may see better results from doing less and focusing on quality.

And I want to talk about the science of that today.

So many of you know that I switched from like pounding my body into the ground for 60 plus minutes every single day,

sometimes multiple times a day, to what I do now, which is just

the 35 minute, have low workouts five days a week, and I see way better results and I no longer

have chronic pain from doing less.

And this is because the adaptations or the changes that happen in your body

are dependent on the stimulus you give your muscles.

It's not just about mindlessly pounding away

and sweating and burning a lot of calories.

Your body will adapt to the stimulus that you give it.

So when you give it higher quality stimulus,

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