Im a freshman in high school and ive been training for about 6 months. Ive been doing split workouts but someone recently told me that i would see more gains if i started to do full body workouts. Will I?
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For the past 9-11 months I've done full body routines and had little gains! (been training for around a year) I've gone onto a split, 5 sessions a week and I'm feeling it more I must say, being able to lift heavier and focus on certain muscles more is helping, plus there's more of a mental satisfaction from knowing that you've hit your arms, chest etc as hard as you could!
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04-25-2012, 02:36 AM #10
This. I wish people would stop preaching full body workouts like it is the only way to train. I'd suggest every newbie to try SS for 3 months, see their results and if they're happy; continue, if not, change to a 5 day split. Every body responds differently to volume and frequency. Personally for me, a 5 day split has given me maximum results in terms of hypertrophy.
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I myself have never really done a full body workout, but I am planning on doing so in the next few months to see what it's like. I know a few guys from my college who do full body workouts and they don't seem to make big gains in all fairness.
I much prefer doing more exercises and getting more flexability than doing compound movements 3 days a weekEx-Fatty
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Basically when you work out you stimulate a higher rate of protein synthesis in the muscles trained.
The elevation of protein synthesis only lasts for around 36 hours. Muscles will be recovered in around the same amount of time. It then makes sense to train again after 3 days seeing as you are recovered and so you can elevate protein synthesis levels. The higher the rate of protein synthesis the greater the amount of growth
you also only need around 6-8 sets per muscle to stimulate optimum hypertrophy.
Hence why frequency>volume
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04-26-2012, 11:45 AM #26
Full body workouts always seem like far too many exercizes in one session to me.
I do:
squats
bench press
bicep curls
deadlifts
bent over rows
shoulder press
dips
calf raises
pushups to failure at the end (just to compliment the bench press and make sure i work my chest as hard as possible)
I do 3-4 sets of each exercise for 8-10 reps. If i did a full body exercise my workout time would be well over an hour. Wouldnt it be better to just split my workout into 2 days such as:
day1: workout A
day2: rest
day3: workout B
say 4: rest
repeat
Opinions?
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04-26-2012, 12:40 PM #29"on the bech press i usually start off with 205 doing it 5 times then once i ad my usual extra 5 pounds on i can barely do it twice. How can i increase my chest cardio? so i can rep heavy weight easier" -dc1992hp
come by and check out my log. I'm racing to a 275x5 bench and 185x3 strict press with comps.
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=141680751
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