Due to circumstances beyond my control I am now only able to train on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I may be able to sneak cardio in some eveing other than that but my lifting days are only the 4 I mentioned. I have been loving the DC training I have been doing but do not see anyway that I can continue it with the new schedule limitations. I figured I could go back to a 4 day split, but wonder if lifting 4 days in a row with 3 days in a row off will be worth it... I gotta lift and figure out the best way to do it with the days available. Any ideas are appreciated...
Mike
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12-10-2008, 12:58 PM #1Registered User
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Stupid problem
Squats make my arms bigger.
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12-10-2008, 01:01 PM #2Bootless Errand
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If you can only train on those days, then train on those days. Who's to say whether or not it won't be optimal? Think about the positive-you've got 4 days to train, something many people can't manage, at all. Don't worry about what you can't do. Can't just left town.
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12-10-2008, 01:04 PM #3Bammed
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^ThisOriginally Posted by ironwill2008
+ Olympic lifting on every day you can train.
"Blessed be the Lord my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle." - Psalm 144:1
Also, taxation is theft.
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12-10-2008, 01:51 PM #4Registered User
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x3Originally Posted by ironwill2008
It's BETTER to exercise than not exercise at all. Your body will thank you for it.
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12-10-2008, 01:52 PM #5Registered User
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Just try it and see how your body reacts. No harm in trying is there? If that's all you have avail to lift, then lift on those days.
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12-10-2008, 01:56 PM #6Abso-friggin-lutelyOriginally Posted by Dad_in_KC
Obsession is a word used by the weak to describe the dedicated
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12-10-2008, 01:56 PM #7In Statu Viae
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It's definitely worth it. You gotta keep up the training. As long as you are not overtraining your muscles, you should be good. Make sure your schedule allows for down-time to get healed up between workouts. Any days to work out are better than the alternative. Work with what you have and change your regimen around accordingly. Good luck!Originally Posted by Dad_in_KC
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humor or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing sane affections. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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12-10-2008, 02:18 PM #8Old as dirt...
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When life give ya lemons make lemonade.......... ya gotta do what ya gotta do........
Was friends with Methuselah
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12-10-2008, 03:00 PM #9Registered User
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Originally Posted by Dad_in_KC
I am currently working a 3 on, 4 off schedule. Not optimal, but that's where life has me right now. You should still be able to continue using some of Dante's basic principles. Rest/pause, widow makers, the stretching etc...it's not the routine that makes the difference, it's what you put into every rep of every set that counts.
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12-10-2008, 03:03 PM #10Registered User
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When/How...
Split the drill in half... now split the half in half. Do the first half on the first two days and the last half the last two days... or, the first half one week and the second the next week (alternate).
Tom W.
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12-10-2008, 03:55 PM #11Bootless Errand
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qft; a simple statement, but it carries the weight of the world, as far as bodybuilding training goes.Originally Posted by Fifty+
No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
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12-10-2008, 04:09 PM #12stretching blows
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i assume you mean you cannot weight train on those 3 days? i've been playing around with a heavy/light split on chest....one day per week i do heavy db bench....and then one day a week, i do "light" at home, which is high volume perfect pushups.
what say you did that on one of the "off" days?
btw, i am very optimistic. i've been gaining lean muscle mass at an unprecedented rate for me. my db bench in the last 2.5 months has gone from using 55's to 95's. my perfect pushups has gone from struggling with 20, to 308 during the first quarter of the giants game on sunday.
just an idea.
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12-10-2008, 04:44 PM #13Bootless Errand
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Which is a big part of the reason why you're making good progress; where the mind goes, the body follows.Originally Posted by boathead
No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
Where the mind goes, the body follows.
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12-10-2008, 05:12 PM #14Registered User
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As opposed to what, giving up altogether?Originally Posted by Dad_in_KC
Also for what its worth I now only train one day a week and would have more muscle mass (even after my not insignificant fat mass subtracted) and strength than most in my gym. At my peak I trained 2 days per week Mon and Thurs and could do 4 sets of 5+ reps with 315 lb on the bench among other things (briefly peaked at benching 3*365 lb). Had 19" arms at a fairly lean 210 lb (not my current 275 lb). All on 2 days per week.
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12-10-2008, 05:25 PM #15Registered User
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Holy mackrel!!! Was that all in one setting or over the course of the entire quarter???Originally Posted by boathead
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12-10-2008, 05:42 PM #16Going back to beast mode
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I see his problem being that he's doing DC training, which is very principled as far as days are concerned. But having said that, I only see you needing to carve out or trade off one more day! Either Wed or Mon. Could it be a night or morning session on Mon or Wed? Friday will finish my 5th week into DC training, and I'm really loving it. It might just be me, but it's just what I was looking for and I'd hate to quit it. You're going to have to sacrifice somewhere to get that one day you need to be able to do the cycle.
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