Currently running a 3 day split with a 3 on/1 off deal and i wanted to know if you guys think 4 days rest for a muscle group is enough, or am i simply overtraining. My split looks like this:
Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest/Tris/Shoulders
Day 3: Bis/Back
Day 4: Rest
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01-07-2010, 05:17 PM #1
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is 4 days rest enough for a muscle group?
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01-07-2010, 05:20 PM #2
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Depends on how trained you are. If you are a newb, you only need 24-72 hrs. If you are intermediate it may take a week for a full recovery cycle from a max effort. Advanced... even longer.
(at least according to Ripp and Kilgore in practical proramming).
You definitely need a rest day though, unless you are a pro.
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01-07-2010, 05:23 PM #3
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Tons of people get great results from 3 days per week of full body workouts. So, yes 4 days is more than enough.
Muscle growth occurs during rest. This much is true. The process of adding muscle tissue is called protein synthesis, and it only lasts for about 48 hours after a training session. One study showed increases for 72 hours, but the increases on that third day were insignificant. This is why higher frequency works so well. No wasted days.
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01-08-2010, 05:22 AM #9
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My point was that allowing more than 72 hours of rest may not be beneficial. The caveat here is that it depends on what you're doing. But, I don't think that these splits, and the idea that you need 7-10 days of rest, applies to the vast majority of natural lifters.
I've done routines where you needed more rest than that (more than 48-72 hours I mean) because of the huge amounts of inflammation caused by the workout. But, in the end I've had far better results from lower volume, but higher frequency and intensity (i.e. load, not exertion), than from these blast and dust style workouts. Your mileage may vary.
Well the guys at Westside Barbell....guys like Louie Simmons still do what is basically an upper/lower split. So, they are hitting everything twice per week with 72 hours of rest for each group; i.e. upper body and lower body. I consider Louie Simmons to be a pretty advanced lifter. Admittedly this is for powerlifting not body building, but I think that the two are more similar than dissimilar.Last edited by MDPower75; 01-08-2010 at 05:28 AM.
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01-10-2010, 08:08 AM #11
Does that mean that a hard (needs more recovery) workout done once a week won't gain any more than a moderate workout also done once a week?
I too would like to hear what y'all are meaning by novice, intermediate, advanced. Is that someone coordinated at their workout as to trash a muscle better or someone with a greater amount of muscle mass that gets worked- or a combo of both?
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