On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, David Lewandowski wrote:

>         Todd you should consider training less frequently but with greater
> intensity to stimulate further muscle gains.

I currently train twice per week, at the maximum intensity that I
am capable of.  That's two whole-body workouts, 2 sets of each
exercise.  The first set is about 10 reps to failure.  I then
increase the weight, wait for about a minute, and do as many more
reps as possible -- usually three or four.

This isn't intense enough?  At 183 lbs. of LBM on a 6'1" frame,
how much LBM do you think I should be carrying?

Last spring and summer I trained 4 times per week, using split
workouts.  Whatever I do, my LBM hovers between 180 and 185.
Before I started strength training, it was between 165 and 170.

By experimentation, I find that I only need one high-intensity
workout per week to maintain this LBM.  Anything beyond that
appears to me at this time to be wasted time.

> Muscle burns significant
> calories at rest. The more you have the more calories you burn even while
> sleeping.

I know.  That's why I did all this training.  Now that I have all
that muscle, I am interested in maximizing its fat-burning
potential, rather than killing myself to add one more pound of
LBM.

Todd Moody
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