Title: How Do You Maintain Muscle and Strength Gains? - Organic Authority
Headings: How Much Exercise Do You Need to Maintain Muscle and Strength Gains? (The Answer May Surprise You!)
How Much Exercise Do You Need to Maintain Muscle and Strength Gains? (The Answer May Surprise You!)
Christmas Comes Early!
What Do You Mean by Volume and Intensity?
Is This For Reals?
What About Every Other Week?
A Caveat: How Old Are You?
The Bottom Line
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Content: But the younger participants in the second group actually continued to make gains while working out twice a week and maintained by hitting it once a week. Unfortunately, the older participants were only able to maintain their gains. And the participants who worked out twice a week were able to maintain better than those who only lifted once. The Bottom Line
Of course, fitness isn't a one-size-fits-all. You have to do whatever works best for your body and lifestyle. But as long as your nutrition and cardio output stay the same, hitting all your major muscle groups once a week (but no less!) should help you maintain your beautiful muscle and strength gains. If you're finding that you're having a hard time keeping that hard earned muscle mass and you're 35 or older, you might want to up your strength workouts to twice a week. And what will you do with your extra days?!? You could take your kids to the park, stretch out on the couch with trashy magazines, cook a delish meal, clean out that crammed closet, check out a Zumba class, or a treadmill class, or a HIIT class, or a aerial fabric class, or hit those glutes again, or just do one extra quick set of leg presses, or biceps, or...
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