One Exercise Approach

[goldenerafan]

What’s up everyone? I have fell off the wagon for a while now and I am trying to get back on my horse so to speak. Today I trained using one exercise just smoking my upper body. Has this approach with enough effort, volume etc.. been more successful than the use of multiple exercises for some? Don’t get me wrong I plan on implementing more exercises to hit more muscle groups but using one lift preferably a compound lift and doing 10-30 sets instead of with 4 or so exercises. What do you guys think?

[TolerantLactose]

Was this one exercise bench press?

[goldenerafan]

Was this one exercise bench press?

Arnold Press with Dumbells for today.

[TolerantLactose]

Arnold Press with Dumbells for today.

Shows what I know.

No, I wouldn't go with one movement per workout unless you mean one movement per movement pattern.

[paulinkansas]

If you want to play around with some sort of hybrid workout, make it sensible. Do your compound push, do a compound pull, do something for your legs. On your next workout, do your compound push, pull and leg on the opposite plane (horizontal vs vertical). Or just follow one of the programs in the stickies like Fierce 5 or All Pro.

[MyEgoProblem]

OLAD can work. (one lift a day) but it gets VERY boring very fast and you will Pick up over use injuries

But ideally it's BIG compounds, and it's programmed with at least one small lift in for balance. Id not just use a small lift like Arnold press.

Ive done:
bench & ghr/leg curl.
Squat & pullups
Press & inverted row
Dead & pushup

Have to get a lot of work in with it and rotate the variations quite often. I did pyramids for the barbell lift and just volume for the bw second lifts

Imo.. Its not optimal to do.
But it will work until it doesn't