HOW MUCH STRENGTH TRAINING SHOULD I BE DOING PT 4.

The last factor to end the week on a great note!

Factor #4: Personal Responsiveness

Different people vary in how responsive they are to strength training. Some are highly responsive, and others are less so.

The more responsive you are, the less strength training you can get away with.

For these folks, a single strength training session provides a very large stimulus for adaptation, when for other folks, the exact same workout provides a smaller stimulus.

If you’re less responsive, you should do more strength training.

How do you know your personal responsiveness to strength training?

There are no hard and fast rules, but here are a few signs:

• If you can lift more weight than someone of equal size, age, gender, and experience level to you
• * If you naturally bulk up very easily
• * If your workout-to-workout improvements in the first 3 months are more than 5–10%.

For example, in your first workout, you might have lifted 100 pounds. The very next workout, you lifted 105–110.

The workout after that, you lifted 110–120 pounds, and so on.

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