# 2 days/week

**URL:** <https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/2-days-week/6473>\
**Category:** Training Q&A \[Moderated\]\
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/2-days-week/6473 "2019-07-15T20:35:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Deertick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Deertick](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Deertick)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/2-days-week/6473/1 "2019-07-15T20:35:59Z")

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At the FoCo, CO conference last weekend, you covered the ACSM recommendations that include two days of resistance training … but I don’t see any of your templates that have less than 3 … supposing someone were to do the 150/300 minute/week additional work, could your templates be used in a two day/week way … or would such long inter-training day lengths decrease efficiency so much that it “wouldn’t be worth it”?

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**Author:** ![Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/jordan_feigenbaum/32/1315_2.png) [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/2-days-week/6473/2 "2019-07-16T14:47:23Z")

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Deertick,

Thanks for the post. The 2018 Physical Guidelines for Americans put the **minimum** recommendations for resistance training at 2x/wk. We’d like to exceed that in an intelligent manner, as there is a dose-dependent response between training volume and both health and performance outcomes.

As far as if it’d be okay for someone to **only** train 2x/wk, sure! We’d prefer them to do more, but that’s fine too.