2965: Should You Work Out Every Day? | Why 7 Days a Week Is Hurting Your Results

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Sal Di Stefano (0:13)

You just found the most downloaded health and fitness and entertainment podcast in history. This is approaching over half a billion downloads. You've just found Mind Pump. Today's episode, we talk about why you should not work out seven days a week. I don't care what your goal is, working out seven days a week, your actual workouts will be counterproductive. And we make the case in today's episode. By the way, for the first time ever, we've never done this before, we will make a customized Maps workout program for you. So normally, we have lots of different Maps programs that we wrote and designed for different avatars. But for the first time ever, we have the software and we also have the trainers. If you go to mymapsprogram.com, within seven days, you'll get on a call with a trainer with a customized Maps workout program for your goals, your fitness level, the exercise equipment you have access to, how many days a week you want to work out, your own customized workout program. Go to mymapsprogram.com. Now this episode is brought to you by a sponsor, Row Nutrition. So Row Nutrition makes supplements for muscle building, fat loss and longevity. But what's different about Row Nutrition versus other supplement companies? Well, namely, it's their delivery system. So they use liposomal technology to deliver the nutrients to your body. What is that? Well, this is a pharmaceutical-grade technology that was designed to increase, dramatically increase, bioavailability. To give you an example, when you take vitamin C, you absorb it pretty well. It's actually a nutrient that doesn't have poor bioavailability. But if you put it in liposomal form, you'll increase the absorption by 150%.

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Sal Di Stefano (2:58)

The more you work out, the better the results, right?

Wrong. We're going to talk about why you should not work out seven days a week. In fact, if that's what you do, you're not getting near the best results you can get. We're going to talk about it right now. Let's go.

Adam Schafer (3:12)

Do you think there's an example of where this does make sense, really?

Sal Di Stefano (3:20)

Good question.

But I think what we need to do first, kind of set the context, is define the difference between a workout and activity. Because-

Adam Schafer (3:30)

Okay, well, that's different.

Sal Di Stefano (3:31)

Yes. Because whenever I say something like this, you only need to work out a couple of days a week or three days a week, people sometimes will send studies that show the benefits of frequent activity. Yeah.

And there are tons of benefits. And so you'll see studies like this, like people who are active every day, live longer, have better health, better longevity markers, less chronic health issues, like all the good stuff versus people who aren't active every single day. And so people believe that to mean that they should work out every single day, but there's a big difference. So here's one of the main ways you can break this down.

A workout is aiming for a specific type of adaptation. So when I'm doing a workout, I'm either trying to get stronger, or I'm trying to improve my stamina, or my endurance, or my mobility. Like I'm aiming towards some kind of a physical pursuit. Activity is just activity. Walking is activity. So when you look at the studies on people that are active every single day, what you're looking at are people who aren't sitting down all day long. People who are walking daily, who are simply moving. And that's very, very different. So what we're not saying here is don't be active every single day. You should. You should move every single day. In fact, if you sit down a lot, even if you work out three days a week, and the rest of the week you're just sitting down, you would have lots of benefit from moving every single day. That's totally different than a workout.