Hey Guys,
I have been running 6 week routines on body parts that happen to be lagging and I have had tremendous success, in regards to that.
Just some insight - I would do say chest on Monday and Friday. But I am not sure how it would work for chest, whats your opinions is this particular muscle different or should I try the same thing?
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Thread: Is Chest twice a week too much
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02-14-2011, 07:05 AM #1
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Is Chest twice a week too much
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not for your chest. but it might be for your triceps if you do them alot too on other days
also what have you done for the program?? just done that body part for 6 weeks?? or just dont it more. i was thinking of doing somethign similar. if yours has worked so wall could you breifly explain it ?? cheers
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02-14-2011, 07:20 AM #5
I do the same thing for legs, only i space it out a little more. i have my first leg day, 2 days of other muscle groups, 1 break day and then second leg day, 2 days of other muscle groups. break. repeat. It has worked wonders for me. just make sure you're rested enough to go back and push it just as hard on your second day as you were your first.
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Never hit your muscle groups on random days. No the idea is to focus on the a bodygroup for 6 weeks, twice a week. so you will do Chest/tris monday and the rest of your routine then friday comes chest and tris again. I go 6 days so this allows me to hit legs twice a week since I was lagging heavily on that. ( I hurt my back and I was not allowed to do legs . But yeah man go to my progress pics you'll see the difference in the two months alone.
I've seen a lot of studies, I will have to revise when I get home I am a work right now, i would say 48-72 would be more realistic though or we would all be theoretically over training.I owe all to the LORD Jesus Christ. Author and Finisher.
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Monday : Chest/ Tris
Tuesday: Legs
Wednesday: Shoulders
Thursday: Back/Bi's
Friday: Chest /Tris
Sat: Legs
It might be too much for arms. I don't know, help me out if you have a useful suggestion.
Maybe I could do just chest and do tris and bis. shouldies and back I dont know.I owe all to the LORD Jesus Christ. Author and Finisher.
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02-14-2011, 10:56 AM #11
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I work every muscle group at least twice a week, mostly compounds:
A: Squat/Chest/Shoulders
B: Deadlift/Back
C: Abs and Calves(kinda a rest day, exercises are lighter as they're not compounds)
Then I repeat it like ABCABCABC, from time to time I put a rest day where I do nothing after a C if I feel I'm getting too tired, it's enough to get me going again the next day. I like higher frequency instead of higher volume.Brazilian Crew |<o>|
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02-14-2011, 11:57 AM #14
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As I said I mostly do compounds, all chest exercises hit the tris, plus military press I do for shoulders, and all back exercises hit the biceps, so instead of separating a day for arms I just do the compounds again 3~ days later. Frequency over volume makes perfect sense to me specially considering the 48-72h muscle regen time thing, if they're already healed 3 days later I should damage them again so they're always regenerating and consequently getting bigger.
So, you don't Squat or Deadlift? Damn, those are awesome exercises, I always think those 2 plus Bench are the core exercises one must do, and the rest are just accessories that complement them.Brazilian Crew |<o>|
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02-14-2011, 12:02 PM #15
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02-14-2011, 12:45 PM #19
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oh lol, it's just you said you couldn't do any other lifts when you squat, so I thought "if he squats he just does the sets and then leaves the gym? I think he doesn't squat".
But still, when I said frequency over volume, it means I only do a couple exercises for chest and a couple more for shoulders(bench, incline bench, military press and side laterals, after I squat), I don't do like 4 exercises for each body part
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02-14-2011, 12:46 PM #20
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02-14-2011, 12:56 PM #22
Twice a week is fine, however you must be careful, if you train a muscle 2x a week try not to exceed 8 sets per session, and do not take all sets to failure.
Really all it comes down to is:
Intensity(physicaly aspect and poundagge aspect) and rest(mental and physical). If you can fit both of them into working a muscle 2x a week than by all means go ahead
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