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The Best Strength Training Workout Is Surprisingly Easy

The number of reps and sets you do is less important than these fundamentals

Christie Aschwanden
Elemental
Published in
7 min readSep 2, 2020

As a fitness columnist, I get lots of questions about the best way to work out. Many of these queries are about strength training: How many workouts per week are necessary? Do I need to lift weights, or…

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Christie Aschwanden
Elemental

Author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Norton, 2019). Twitter: @CragCrest christieaschwanden.com