Adam Schafer

Now, the bigger you get, the less this becomes a correlate.

But especially for the first, let's say, three years of your strength training, the best way to build muscle is to get stronger.

Nothing comes close

to adding 30 pounds to your squat or 20 pounds to your overhead press.

You add weight to the bar, especially for the first three years, you're building more muscle.

Now, later on when you're more advanced, it's less of a correlate.

However, I will say this, if you've been training for years and you've gotten to a place where you stopped seeing how strong you can get, and it's been a long time, it's been five years, five years of me actually training to see how strong I can get,

Go train to try to get stronger.

Watch what happens to your gains.

You're going to unlock some serious muscle growth because it's been so long since you've even tried this.

There's also this, that there's this U-shaped curve when it comes to the dose of strength training that you apply to your body when it comes to strength and or building muscle.

So what I mean by that is, you know, no stimulation, no muscle.

Some stimulation, some muscle.

The perfect stimulation, the most muscle and strength.

Then if you add more to that, then you go down the slope again and you start to lose weight.

potential gains in both strength and muscle.

I think a lot of times people confuse strength training with activity or exercise.

So it is important to exercise or to be active every day.

So sometimes people look at this and they go,

well, okay, I'm going to do one or two lifts a day.