How Much Exercise Do You Actually Need? Lifting AND Running

How much exercise do you actually need to be healthy and perform well? And how does that change if you’re lifting, running, or trying to do both?

In this video, I break down what the current research actually says about exercise volume, including lifting and endurance training, and why some popular conclusions about “too much exercise” are being overstated or misunderstood. We look at how certain studies and narrative reviews have been used to create fear around training volume, where the certainty of the evidence is very low, and why cherry picking outcomes leads to misleading conclusions.

I also walk you through how I personally structure training, how I program differently depending on whether someone is optimizing for strength and hypertrophy or for running performance, and why you cannot optimize everything at once without tradeoffs. You’ll see practical hybrid setups for lifting focused and running focused goals, along with the evidence that shapes those decisions.

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