A 12-week study found that one concurrent training session every two weeks preserved 90-95% of muscle mass, strength, and aerobic gains over three months. Ben Greenfield explains what this means for people who can't train consistently.
This study looked at how little one can exercise. They took participants for 12 weeks. They assigned them into different groups. One group trained once a week, one group trained once every two weeks, and one group did nothing. The study concluded that you can perform one training session every two weeks for three months and preserve 90 to 95% of the muscle mass, strength and aerobic power adaptation that you have achieved with a style of training called concurrent training, meaning they were doing the aerobics and the cardio in the same session once every two weeks. Now, I'm not telling you this as an excuse for you to stay sedentary, but let's face it, some of us travel, we get busy, we get guilty that we're not able to train. We think, oh, I'm going to lose my muscle, I'm going to lose my aerobic fitness. You lose a lot less than what you'd think.
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