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Back to EpisodesSo You Want To Build Endurance Without Losing Strength
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Adding endurance doesn't automatically cost you your strength. Bad programming, under-fueling, and no recovery cost you your strength.
Amanda and Jess G. get into how to build endurance while holding onto the strength you spent years earning. The good news up front: maintaining strength takes far less work than building it did. The catch is you can't max out everything at once, and pretending you can is how people end up run down and stalled in both. They talk about why the interference effect gets overblown, the difference between actually losing strength and just being too fatigued to show it, and how to lift enough to keep what you've got without living in the gym.
Plus the three-to-five rule for maintenance lifting, why your hardest sessions deserve the freshest version of you, and how to stack a training week so you're not turning every day into medium-hard sludge.