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How strong do people get only lifting 3 or 4 days per week? (old.reddit.com)

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The original was posted on /r/weightlifting by /u/KlokovTestSample on 2024-11-05 07:17:17+00:00.

Been getting pretty busy, usually do 5-6 days but probably will have to drop down to 3-4 for an undetermined amount of time. I have heard Olivia Reeves only did 3 for the majority of her training, and added a fourth day for the Olympics specifically. Apparently Brayan Ibanez only does three days now as well. These two are both insanely strong but are they just outliers? I probably am not strong enough to worry about this in the first place, but I snatch 95 and cj 125 if it means anything.

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

3 to 4 times per week is generally considered ideal, more than that you have a higher risk of being overtrained and under recovered. The more advanced of a lifter that you are the more recovery time you require. Renaissance periodization on YouTube talks about this a lot if you want to go down this rabbit hole