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Sample Weekly Workout Schedule
A weekly training schedule should be a thoughtful organization of the days that you workout. This ensures that you can train each muscle group, each skill, or whatever your goal is with enough frequency for results, while also preventing overtraining. Many of us have never written a training routine, much less a training schedule. That seems like the territory of…
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What’s a Split Schedule?
A split schedule is a weekly training routine that involves dedicated training days for each muscle group, enabling each muscle group to be trained intensely, in turn encouraging maximum muscle growth or strength. With a split schedule, each muscle is trained more fully, because all your energy is devoted to one or two (sometimes three) muscle groups per session, as…
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Cardio in the Morning
Cardio in the morning can maximize fat loss by capitalizing on your body’s carbohydrate-depleted state caused by your overnight fast (sleep). The body stores carbohydrates you eat throughout the day as glycogen in your muscles and liver. Regular physical movement and exercise deplete those stores, but before bed, you can still have some glycogen stored within your body. While you…
