Recently got a home gym.. is it okay to do ‚a little bit a few times a day‘?

Sounds great to me!

Keep in mind that you build the most muscles when you:


1) Lower the weight back down SLOWLY.

This means that if you lift the weight to its maximum height, but then just let gravity help you drop it down again, before lifting it once again, then you're missing out on a HUGE amount of muscle building.

FOR EXAMPLE:

When doing a pushup, you actually build the most muscle, when you lower your body SLOWLY towards the floor, as opposed to just letting gravity drop your body to the floor.

Again, same thing with weights:

If you're curling a weight in your hand, you build the most muscle when you SLOWLY bring the weight back down level, as opposed to just letting gravity drop it back down for you.


2) NEXT... you build the most muscle by lifting the maximum weight you can 3 or 4 times before needing a brief rest.

So... find a level of weight that you can only lift 3 or 4 times.

Next: rest briefly. Then do another set. And another.

How often you space apart those sets doesn't really seem to matter. You can space them apart throughout the day if you want, as you are doing.


What all this means, to give another example, is that A) you can lift a weight 30 times in a row without rest, or B) you can lift a heavier weight only 3 to 4 times in a row (because that's all you can do with the heavier weight)...

In which case option B (the weight you lift only 3 or 4 times builds) MORE muscle mass than if you had just worked out only with a weight that you can lift 30 times in a row.


IN SHORT:

Lots of repetitions in a row of lighter weights do NOT build muscle as much, especially when compared to lifting heavier weights only 3 or 4 times per set.

And you can space out the sets of those heavier weights as much as you want during the day.

And what further enhances the muscle building benefits of those sets is bringing the weight down SLOWLY!

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