Training chest twice a week

shamage · 09-25-2009, 04:26 PM

Any of you do it ? is it bad to do it twice a week?

RollTide99 · 09-25-2009, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by shamage

Any of you do it ? is it bad to do it twice a week?

twice a week sounds good, i do 3 times a week but apparently im overtraining myself, lol

Mvick07 · 09-25-2009, 04:34 PM

i just started doing it twice this week, well see the results

gerbilz · 09-25-2009, 04:34 PM

i train my chest and arms everyday

my routine:
bench press
incline press
bicep curls

and then abs.

edit: JK, but ya you can train your chest twice a week if you want to

strghtrzr · 09-25-2009, 04:35 PM

I work chest twice a week and it works for me. It just depends where you are physically and ifyour body can keep up.

babyslayer · 09-25-2009, 04:36 PM

train as often as recovery allows, if i could train chest every day and recover from it fine, id be doing my self a diservice by not doing it.

kevinYu · 09-25-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by shamage

Any of you do it ? is it bad to do it twice a week?

yeah i use to do it and got good results but now i just do it once a week

MustangNate007 · 09-25-2009, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by babyslayer

train as often as recovery allows, if i could train chest every day and recover from it fine, id be doing my self a diservice by not doing it.

this. it all depends on how fast you recover

StevenNevets · 09-25-2009, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by babyslayer

train as often as recovery allows, if i could train chest every day and recover from it fine, id be doing my self a diservice by not doing it.

You were probably doing low volume though?

If he's doing the volume of a typical "chest day" I'm pretty sure every day would be horrible.

2 days a week is good

RollTide99 · 09-25-2009, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by babyslayer

train as often as recovery allows, if i could train chest every day and recover from it fine, id be doing my self a diservice by not doing it.

sounds like i need to bump it up to 4 times a week

StevenNevets · 09-25-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by RollTide99

sounds like i need to bump it up to 4 times a week

than you might as well do the same thing for every body part in which case your routine is going to turn into a full body strength based routine which uses low volume and high frequency which is the whole point my post above is trying to make.

there is an inverse relationship between frequency and volume

RollTide99 · 09-25-2009, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by StevenNevets

than you might as well do the same thing for every body part in which case your routine is going to turn into a full body strength based routine which uses low volume and high frequency which is the whole point my post above is trying to make.

there is an inverse relationship between frequency and volume

I train for strength first, size second...i love lifting heavy, i guess more than i love looking swole ( maybe im in the wrong place lol ) dont get me wrong i wanna get big but i always love lifting alot for my size also

Captain Action · 09-25-2009, 05:32 PM

I train everything twice a week.

ayekay · 09-25-2009, 06:21 PM

i train it 2 times a week

thenewmillar · 09-25-2009, 06:36 PM

i used 2 do it all time i try n focus on top of my chest now coz i want a big bulge at top

babyslayer · 09-26-2009, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by StevenNevets

than you might as well do the same thing for every body part in which case your routine is going to turn into a full body strength based routine which uses low volume and high frequency which is the whole point my post above is trying to make.

there is an inverse relationship between frequency and volume

training often, with volume, will condition your body to be able to handle a greater work load, and will condition your body to recover faster. this is why a new lifter trains legs once and hurts for a week, and a more advanced lifter can squat 4 days a week on smolov and not even have sore legs. your body adapts, only to a point of course.

so then you have to ask, if someone can train heavier, with with more volume than you, and they can recover faster than you can, so there for train more often, will their gains be faster, all else created equal?

YES.

when you think about it steroids allow you to use more weight/reps/volume and recover faster, this is basically what you would be achieving (to a point) by conditioning your body like i wrote about.

of course it doesnt work for everyone, but thats what some olympic lifters used to do, and still do as far as i know. and louie simmons (powerlifting guru) is always talking about doing extra workouts to increase GPP to speed up recovery and condition your self for faster recovery/allow you to do more overall work.