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@redeemedsinner I switched to a low volume/high intensity full body routine so I only need 3 good sessions per week. Home gym. I fit in some dumbbell accessory stuff and pull ups randomly whenever I have a few spare minutes. It’s hard to get even that.

@imnw OP is frustrated that they didn’t build muscle.

@hemis7531 To build muscle?

@dawn16 Yup. 3 to 5 minutes between sets is provably optimal for hypertrophy... but that's for a single exercise. When you account for the necessary volume for every muscle group, it's just not practical. I have no idea why people are actually doing this in the gym when, as you pointed out, many...

@saseearay Since OP is untrained at a high bf%, they are in the rare situation of being able to lose fat and build muscle at the same time. But they’d need to eat enough protein, eat very near maintenance calories, and follow a resistance training program with progressive overload. But after...

@ilovebilliejoearmstrong This is 100% it, and the same thing goes for sooo many other popular training facts. Rep ranges, rest times, exercise variations... Influencers ofc don't want to be wrong because comment sections will eat them alive so they just promote what the latest studies say. But...

@nasa321 Those scans are notoriously inaccurate. BF% can be off by a lot. F45 workouts are not efficient for muscle building. Muscle is built with progressive resistance training. F45 does have resistance based classes but the programming is just not right for actually building muscle. You...