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> I would like to argue that being healthy and fit is not about the gym, or investing time in tracking calories.

You do what works for you, others should do what works for them.

The point of the article on which we are commenting is that training each day is more beneficial than once a week. It's a huge time investment to go to the gym each day. But you could do some pushups or squats right now, and the great thing is. The time investment is small, and short term and long term is great investment. you'll immediately get a small dopamine boost and in the long run your health and appearance will improve. And according to the article it's better than once heroic day in the gym, that will leave you feeling sluggish.

But everyone can benefit from even simple body exercises, and maybe buy some dumbbells and lift them up each day for 5 minutes, if they become light, increase the weight or reps. Its that simple.

The point I'm trying to make is that exercise doesn't have to take place in a gym, it could. The bioneer link above can expain it much better then me.

My understanding is that training every day is good for hypertrophy and perhaps endurance, but that it is not the best way to gain strength. The underlying notion is that the more work you do, the more capacity for work you can do. And that recovery time is nonlinear to the amount of work done, so that more but less intense excercise leads to ablarger capacity for work. However, if you are double fast-twitch and you want to play to your strengths (pun intended), you are going for peak power, not average capacity for work over time. In that case you get stronger by doing things that require more strength. That is going to still require recovery time that will not typically allow work every day. In fact, for strength training, best practice is still to avoid getting out of breath on recovery days.

Hypertrophy is a different goal entirely, and always had more volume than strength or power workouts, this data simply takes that to the logical conclusion. Whether its bro-splits or lots of compound work. You want to maximize average volume over any interval you could pick.

yeah, as an adult, I don't mind doing chores, weightlifting is just one of them

like most chores, it's not that fun, but the results make it worth it

I've found that few adults think this way. A lot of them avoid exercise and healthy eating because they perceive these as hard and complicated, and they are afraid of doing the work and likely failing anyway. Mainstream advice doesn't help this situation at all.

I get a lot better results at helping people when I show them that health can actually be fun and easy.

I mind doing most chores, and I don't think I'm alone: How many people would choose to do dishes for a family of four if they have a dishwasher to do it for them?

I even like to cook, but most days it is simply a chore and not something I particularly want to do that day.

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