Doing Less Gets You More Jacked After 40

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My book Muscle After 40 is now available for pre-order! ➜ https://a.co/d/0egfZFBI Most guys think building more muscle after 40 means doing more. More sets. More exercises. More days in the gym - I used to believe that too. In my twenties, I trained five or six days a week, doing close to 20 sets per muscle, and most of my workouts lasted nearly two hours. And you know what? It worked… I built a lot of muscle training that way. The problem is, when something works, it's easy to assume it'll always be the best way to do it. But as I got older, the workouts that helped me build muscle in my twenties weren't producing the same results anymore. And oddly enough, it wasn't until I started training less that my body started responding again. Today, I’m in the gym 3-4 days per week, and most of my workouts are done in less than an hour. I’m doing about half the work I used to, yet I'm in the best shape of my life. You see, after 40, building muscle is no longer as simple as doing mo

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