Muffin Top-Less

Just got a question regarding training frequency:

“Hey I was wondering can I do squats everyday? I know a lot of places says to wait a day for the muscle to repair itself, but I’m on a very high protein diet wouldn’t that speed up the process?” 

Muscle is built OUTSIDE of the gym, not in it. In other words, when you lift weights (squats for example), you are breaking down the muscle tissue. It is through proper nutrition and adequate SLEEP that your muscles rebuild and repair themselves! Spending hours and hours in the gym is actually counter-productive, because if you just continuously break down the muscle tissue and never give it enough time to rebuild itself, you’re not going to make much (if any) progress!

Even a high-protein diet will not make up for over-training. Make sure to give yourself time to recover. Working a muscle group 1-2 times a week is sufficient to make considerable gains. If you choose to do a muscle group twice in a week, try to split it up so you train that muscle once at the beginning and once at the end of the week to give sufficient time in between to recover!