Twice a week full-body training program for hypertrophy?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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I recently finished running Hypertrophy I back-to-back and absolutely loved it. I saw great results, however, I was in college at the time and had a structured school-life balance that afforded me the consistent schedule to base the workouts on. Now that I’ve graduated, I’m in under-employment limbo working in a restaurant while waiting for call-backs from job applications, and my formerly consistent schedule has now been swept away and replaced by a work schedule that randomizes every week. I don’t want to lose my gains from Hypertrophy I as much as possible, but I only have the time-energy to train twice a week now as opposed to the 3-5 days a week Hypertrophy I demanded.

What kind of 2 days a week full-body hypertrophy program is out there that would be most effective for preserving what I’ve built? I don’t expect not to incur losses with a switch-up like this, but I’d like to at least slow down the rate of loss, or at best preserve what I’ve gained. Thanks in advance!

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Drip,

Great to hear you had great results on the Hypertrophy I program. Love that!

Given the dose-response relationship between training load and gains, where more training load generally produces greater gains, we’d ideally want to maximize how much training you can do with your available time.

I think you’d be a perfect candidate for our Time Crunch program, which includes multiple programs for different schedules and goals, i.e. 2,3,4+ days-per-week and strength, hypertrophy, and general s/c designed programs.

I’d start with one of the hypertrophy-focused programs, then do a strength program (all included in the same download) to switch it up for a bit, then re-evaluate where you’re at.

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