What's going on, Beaches? Welcome to the Daily Soul Podcast, episode 3,207. It's Saturday,

February the 15th, and today we got some swelosophy. Today I want to talk a little bit about

taking an extra recovery day. Now, no matter what your programming is, many things that come up on the podcast come down

to the frequency and the training split. We talk a lot about frequency of training. We talk a lot

about the frequency of the split and, of course, the different types of split. So whatever you're doing

right now, you're doing a split. Fine. There it is. One of the things that I do push on a lot

is the fact that most people are doing too much. They think they're not doing enough. The tendency

is to do more. And the problem is the quality decreases.

You end up doing a lot of junk volume.

And then you get more frustrated because you're just burnt out and the cycle repeats itself.

So if you are on a certain program and you're seeing progress and then you hit a plateau,

let's say you're doing Maxim swole and you hit a plateau.

A good idea is to add in another recovery day between subsequent sessions.

Because here's the thing.

You want to determine what your maximum frequency is.

You know the intensity is going to be high.

You can fluctuate the intensity, but you need to be training close to failure, right?

So you have to choose what your rep scheme is, the be high. You can fluctuate the intensity, but you need to be training close to failure, right? So you have to choose what your rep scheme is. The more reps, the more fatigue,

right? So if you're training heavier, maybe less fatigue, but of course you have to

maybe adjust on certain exercises or no matter what you're, depending on what you have access to

at home or your gym maybe there's

some fluctuations so you can only play so much with intensity higher reps you still need to train

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