This Easily Overlooked Aspect Of Your Workouts Can Make Or Break Progress

One of the best things you can do on your fitness journey is focus on the biggest needle movers for diet and training.

For diet: Controlling calories and protein

For training: Get stronger on compound exercises

Everything else does matter and makes a difference, but not nearly as much of an impact.

And as far as your workouts go, there’s another aspect that too few people talk about which is one of the main reasons why I only hit the weights 3 times per week…

Recovery.

There is something to be said for training more often and building up your work capacity.

And if you’re able to get enough sleep, hydration, and keep stress low enough…

Then that’s cool.

Absolutely nothing wrong with training 4–6 days per week.

But I’ve noticed for me, someone who gets 5 hours of sleep per night max and is busy from before sun up to well after sun down…

Training 4 days per week is pushing my own limits of recovery, and I’ve even had my strength go down due to under-recovering.

Even though the same training principles apply to everyone, recovery rates can vary a…