I have heard both, currently i work each major muscle once a week except i never bench, incline and decline on the same day, i spread those out over my 3 day lifting period. I do chest with bench, legs with incline, and back/shoulders with decline. I was reading the arnold encyclopedia to weight lifting and he said over a six day period for beginners you should go day 1. chest 2. legs 3. shoulders/back 4 chest 5 legs 6 shoulders/back doing abs on every day. i'm pretty sure tahts how it goes i dont realyl feel like looking it up, but is that smart, or is sticking to the way im going the right way?
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12-26-2003, 07:00 PM #1
working each major muscle twice a week? good or bad?
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12-26-2003, 07:03 PM #2Registered User
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if i understand your flat, incline, decline thing correctly....that's rediculous...utterly rediculous. And as far as training twice a week goes...it's a good thing if you do it the right way, and it's a bad thing if you do it the wrong way. If ur interested in working each muscle group twice a week, look into dogg crapp's training methods, and dfht....and you might wanna consider getting rid of arnold's book....or atleast never reading it ever again. Peace
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12-26-2003, 07:03 PM #3Cui Bono?
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While I wouldn't recommend getting training advice out of Arnold's Encyclopedia, higher frequency can definately be better than low frequency if you're sure to plan it out well (and much worse if you don't). If you want to learn more about high frequency splits, read up on HST and DFHT.
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12-26-2003, 07:08 PM #4
explain how or why exactly you think it's rediculous?
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12-26-2003, 07:11 PM #5Registered User
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i don't know if i'm reading you right 100%...but by saying decline and incline, you mean presses don't you? As in, on leg day you do an incline press, and on back day, you do a decline press?Originally posted by baptism
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12-26-2003, 07:14 PM #6
yeah, i don't really want to do them all on the same day, i tried it but i could never really tell how good of a workout i was getting because a fter the first one i was a lready hurting, so i spread them out, should i do them all in the same day?
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12-26-2003, 07:19 PM #7Registered User
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Last edited by pimster987; 12-26-2003 at 07:22 PM.
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12-26-2003, 07:21 PM #8
to clarify on day one i bench press, on day two i incline press along with working legs legs, on day three i decline press along with shoulders and back then the other four days are rest
Last edited by baptism; 12-26-2003 at 07:23 PM.
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12-26-2003, 07:46 PM #9
by the way what i do is a slight variation of the bigger faster stronger program that our strength coach has us all do
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12-27-2003, 12:43 PM #10Registered User
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First of all, you don't HAVE to do incline, flat, and decline. If you feel just doing flat works out your chest enough, just do flat. If your program is set up to work everything once a week....why would you be working chest 3? You're giving it no time to recover at all. Definately do NOT do it as you are. PeaceOriginally posted by baptism
yeah, i don't really want to do them all on the same day, i tried it but i could never really tell how good of a workout i was getting because a fter the first one i was a lready hurting, so i spread them out, should i do them all in the same day?REPS ARE ALWAYS GOOD
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