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Ep. #1072: Alyssa Olenick on Using “Hybrid Training” to Maximize Your Fitness

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

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How Much Cardio Should You Do Per Week to Maintain Muscle?

If you're just looking to maintain your physique I mean you can do a lot less than than just 30% if we just look at it straight. Some research that I've seen suggests you might even be able to go down to a third of the volume that it takes to gain muscle. It's not really as much of an impact as hypertrophy as it is the strength and power Output. That has more to do with your central nervous system fatigue than it has to do with like interference. And where we see some of this interference occurring is that high heart percentages like over 80 of your one rep max type work.

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