A Method for Developing a Work Capacity That Can Handle High-Volume, High-Frequency Workouts I often preach the benefits of high-frequency training along with full-body workouts. I think they are two of the best ways to build a lot of muscle and strength, especially for the natural lifter. Another central component for the natural lifter is to develop a strong work capacity , or the ability to do a lot of work and then recover from it quickly. Read that last sentence again if you have to and let it sink in. There are, I would guess, a lot of lifters who are capable of doing a lot of work in the gym, but very few of them can then recover from it quickly. You can blame that on modern training, I suppose, more than anything else, since we live in some sort of upside down, topsy turvy training world where bodybuilders “blast” their muscles with endless sets and then give those muscles a week—hell, sometimes even more—before train...
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