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How Often Should You Really Lift Weights? Feat. Dr. Stuart Phillips

Podcast: Docs Who Lift · Docs Who Lift

Opublikowano: 2026-04-02

Dr. Spencer Nadolsky and Dr. Karl Nadolsky sit down with Dr. Stuart Phillips, senior author on the newly updated American College of Sports Medicine position stand on resistance training, to break down what 137 systematic reviews and over 30,000 participants actually tell us about building muscle, getting stronger, and improving function across the lifespan. The last version of these guidelines was published in 2009 and the science has come a long way, even if the fundamentals have not. In this episode they cover why lifting weights twice a week is already getting most of the available benefit and three times...