2090: Five Tips to Work Out Less and Keep Your Gains
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover five different ways to minimize time in the gym without sacrificing muscle.
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The amount of volume needed to maintain muscle. (1:57)
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Does consistency and experience lifting play a factor? (3:37)
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The difference between the optimal and the most you can tolerate training. (8:20)
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5 Tips to Workout Less and Keep Your Gains. (14:14)
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#1 - Change the phase of training that you are in. (14:35)
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#2 - Increase the intensity of your workouts. (17:43)
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#3 - Eliminate 'less' worthy exercises. (20:58)
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#4 - Keep your protein intake high. (24:47)
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#5 - Use BFR training on off days. (28:22)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the most downloaded fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump, right? |
| 0:18.0 | In today's episode, we give you five tips to work out less and keep your gains. |
| 0:23.0 | In fact, some of these tips will actually help you get more gains by working out less. |
| 0:27.0 | So it's going to be a fun episode. |
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| 1:03.0 | All right, here comes a show. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the biggest points of stress, especially for fitness fanatics, is the following. |
| 1:10.0 | I've been working out for a while, but now I need to work out less due to unforeseen circumstances, maybe family life, maybe job, whatever. |
| 1:18.0 | But the fear is or the stress is, am I going to lose my gains? |
| 1:22.0 | I don't know why I do this, but keep all the gains I got during those years of training. |
| 1:27.0 | So in today's episode, we're going to talk about the ways you can keep your gains while working out less. |
| 1:32.0 | And believe it or not, sometimes you get more gains. |
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