Lift two days in a row or just one less day?

[Nate the Snake]

Hi, I have made excellent progress in the last year and 4 months that I have been working out. I have doubled my bench press, and I have lost 72 lbs. However, my work schedule has become somewhat hectic and I often times have to get creative in order to accomplish my fitness goals. Every time I go to the gym, I do full-body workouts. So I ask you all this? Would it be better to workout out the same body parts two days in a row, or would it be better to just work out 2 days instead of 3 days a week? Which would hurt my progress more?

[Partyrocking]

Which days do you have to workout? You could do full body twice a week and still get results (won't be as fast as full body 3 days a week for obvious reasons), but if you have three days that just aren't alternating, maybe you could do FB one day and upper/lower for the two days that are next to each other.

If I had to pick, I'd probably do full body twice a week, but depending on your schedule, there could be more options.

[Squid24]

Without knowing your work schedule it is hard to say what is better. If you have 3 days a week to where you can get a workout in, then do full body. If, like Partyrocking said, if you have 3 days available but 2 of them are next to each other, then I would do an Upper/lower routine on the consecutive days and a full body with a days rest between.

[Nate the Snake]

Which days do you have to workout? You could do full body twice a week and still get results (won't be as fast as full body 3 days a week for obvious reasons), but if you have three days that just aren't alternating, maybe you could do FB one day and upper/lower for the two days that are next to each other.

If I had to pick, I'd probably do full body twice a week, but depending on your schedule, there could be more options.

Without knowing your work schedule it is hard to say what is better. If you have 3 days a week to where you can get a workout in, then do full body. If, like Partyrocking said, if you have 3 days available but 2 of them are next to each other, then I would do an Upper/lower routine on the consecutive days and a full body with a days rest between.

I work Monday through Friday 3pm to 11pm. So I only work about 40-45 hours per week, and sometimes up to 50. Here is the problem that I am looking at: I live in Jacksonville, the largest city in terms of landmass, so I am constantly having to walk everywhere and whatnot. Don't worry, I am in the midst of trying to save for a car, but that's a very slow process. Before things were going great, and I was able to do the stronglifts 5x5 workout. However, it's been raining here every single day lately and I am rarely making it to the gym. So I guess I could do workout A or B for stronglifts, but could someone give me a good upper lower body split workout I could do so that I could do one day of upper body, and one day of lower body? It usually works out to where I can go to the gym one day during the weekdays and then I can go once on Saturday and once on Sunday.

[Squid24]

I work Monday through Friday 3pm to 11pm. So I only work about 40-45 hours per week, and sometimes up to 50. Here is the problem that I am looking at: I live in Jacksonville, the largest city in terms of landmass, so I am constantly having to walk everywhere and whatnot. Don't worry, I am in the midst of trying to save for a car, but that's a very slow process. Before things were going great, and I was able to do the stronglifts 5x5 workout. However, it's been raining here every single day lately and I am rarely making it to the gym. So I guess I could do workout A or B for stronglifts, but could someone give me a good upper lower body split workout I could do so that I could do one day of upper body, and one day of lower body? It usually works out to where I can go to the gym one day during the weekdays and then I can go once on Saturday and once on Sunday.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=162916931 it's the second program in the thread.

[Nate the Snake]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=162916931 it's the second program in the thread.

Ok thanks, I will do that.

[Redrum92]

Do a split. Doing full body is only for people really short on time, or for beginners who just need a little of everything.

I like a 4 day split: push (triceps, chest, shoulders), pull (biceps, upper back, traps, lats etc), legs (quad, hams, glutes) and core/torso (abs, lower back, obliques, serratus)


You could do this one day on one day off. Id recommend that to get used to that and no over do it. Or I do 4 workouts in 5 days, and take a rest day (or 2 occasionally) when I feel I need it

This will help you advance much more. You can do 2-3x as much on each body part and get hell of a lot more gains.

Never ever workout the same body parts 2 days in a row

[Squid24]

Do a split. Doing full body is only for people really short on time, or for beginners who just need a little of everything.

I like a 4 day split: push (triceps, chest, shoulders), pull (biceps, upper back, traps, lats etc), legs (quad, hams, glutes) and core/torso (abs, lower back, obliques, serratus)


You could do this one day on one day off. Id recommend that to get used to that and no over do it. Or I do 4 workouts in 5 days, and take a rest day (or 2 occasionally) when I feel I need it

This will help you advance much more. You can do 2-3x as much on each body part and get hell of a lot more gains.

Never ever workout the same body parts 2 days in a row

I don't know when you last did a full body routine, but when your gains keep getting higher and higher, you need more warm-ups and longer rest periods so it starts taking longer to get done.

I see you must be an advanced lifter since you are only hitting your body parts once a week instead of running a normal PPL that hits them 2 times a week.

Your next line is a misconception since it is a slower progression and that means your gains will come slower. That is when it is done correctly like I stated ^^^^, your way is even SLOWER.

[melDorado]

I'm the same I have random days off in work and very long shifts on work days, so I often have to train consecutive days. For this reason I've long been running upper lower splits so I am always fresh, I just alternate.
Atm doing wendlers 531 thing but that's for strength not gains.

[Squid24]

I think this is why I workout in the mornings. I just worked 14days straight with half of them being 12hr shifts, and 3 of those were consecutive days. So, I guess if you want to workout more, you just find the time

[schneppy07]

Hi, I have made excellent progress in the last year and 4 months that I have been working out. I have doubled my bench press, and I have lost 72 lbs. However, my work schedule has become somewhat hectic and I often times have to get creative in order to accomplish my fitness goals. Every time I go to the gym, I do full-body workouts. So I ask you all this? Would it be better to workout out the same body parts two days in a row, or would it be better to just work out 2 days instead of 3 days a week? Which would hurt my progress more?

I would start a split then you can workouts multiple days in a row. That will make you more versatile.

[Nate the Snake]

Do a split. Doing full body is only for people really short on time, or for beginners who just need a little of everything.

I like a 4 day split: push (triceps, chest, shoulders), pull (biceps, upper back, traps, lats etc), legs (quad, hams, glutes) and core/torso (abs, lower back, obliques, serratus)


You could do this one day on one day off. Id recommend that to get used to that and no over do it. Or I do 4 workouts in 5 days, and take a rest day (or 2 occasionally) when I feel I need it

This will help you advance much more. You can do 2-3x as much on each body part and get hell of a lot more gains.

Never ever workout the same body parts 2 days in a row

Yeah my problem is I really dont have time to do it that way

[Nate the Snake]

I'm the same I have random days off in work and very long shifts on work days, so I often have to train consecutive days. For this reason I've long been running upper lower splits so I am always fresh, I just alternate.
Atm doing wendlers 531 thing but that's for strength not gains.

Well Im glad there is finally someone on here that has a similar situation to mine. The thing is, I would workout at night but everytime I do that it gets my addrenaline pumping and I cant sleep for sh*t that night. However I am still losing weight at least and am down to 191 lbs and am beginning to lose weight again

[Nate the Snake]

I would start a split then you can workouts multiple days in a row. That will make you more versatile.

I think thats a good idea. I am gonna do all split routines now