Let's say the best thing you really can do is only eat, lift and sleep. We'll say you're lifting so much you need 12 hours of sleep a night, which is probably unrealistic but whatever. That can include brushing teeth, showering, ****ing etc.. Now you need to eat, probably 6-8000 calories. Let's say you're a slow eater and that takes 4 hours, and even though in an ideal world you wouldn't do washing up, we'll take out another hour letting the meals sit. We'll say you don't live in the gym (even though in an ideal world you would) and you travel for an hour a day total. That means that the guy who doesn't want to do 4 hours of sports a week because of its affect on recovery (due to being fried after playing badminton) wants to lift for six hours a day, every day, as a conservative estimate.
Please tell me there is some part of your brain that thinks "man am I talking complete **** today." I know you repress it, but please tell me it's there.