Bodypart Every 5 Days

[inthecity]

Hello all first post on here,

Alot of people seem to advocate hitting each bodypart once a week to allow for full recovery and to avoid over-training etc. This is all good as if I've learnt anything in the last year its that less volume + more compound lifts + more rest is paramount (plus a good diet etc)

That said I feel like I could train my muscles again after 4/5 days of working them last - therefore I'm potentially wasting 2 days. So would someone who is natural but using medium volume (10-12 sets for Chest/Back etc) with a decent diet be able to do this?

Rather than doing Chest every Monday, Back every Tuesday etc I'll do Chest five days after I did it last. Ie on Monday then Saturday then Thursday etc....

This would allow for more frequency and over the course of a month. I'll probably only do this for Chest/Back/Legs and leave Delts to an average of once a week. So in a 3 week "cycle" Id hit Chest/Back/Legs 4 times rather than 3.

Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[EZ_E]

if you can do this while STILL maintaining 2 rest days a week then yes


if you cant then dont do it

i train bodyparts every 5 days, but my split is chest/back/legs , i have a rest after every 2 workouts

+1....never saw how training the same BP on the same day would work....I like 2-3 days on, day (or 2) off

~EZ

 

[inthecity]

Exactly my thinking and yes they'll be plenty of rest days.

Thanks

 

[EZ_E]

Far too many people don't have enough off days or get the right amount of sleep, rest = results......

~EZ

 

[inthecity]

Also bit of advice on the workouts...

On my Back/Bi I'm keeping it simple with Chins, BB Row and Deads but would like a lighter cable exercise at the end. Which would be better Cable Row or Lat Pulldown; just say 2 x10-12?

Also on Delt day I was thinking of doing BB Press x10 x8 x6 x3 to help me pile some weight on the bar as I've been stuck on about 50kg x8 for a while now.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Peterlumberjack]

i train a muscle every 4 days

 

[Peterlumberjack]

i train heavy a, volume 1. heavy b, volume 2, heavy 3, volume 3. off heavy 1, volume a, heavy 2, volume b, heavy 3, volume c.

a chest
1 back
b shoulders
2 arms
c quads
3 hams/glutes

 

[EZ_E]

also bit of advice on the workouts...

On my back/bi i'm keeping it simple with chins, bb row and deads but would like a lighter cable exercise at the end. Which would be better cable row or lat pulldown; just say 2 x10-12?

why not both? Rotate 'em on a random basis...[/color]

also on delt day i was thinking of doing bb press x10 x8 x6 x3 to help me pile some weight on the bar as i've been stuck on about 50kg x8 for a while now.

Thanks in advance!

~ez

 

[inthecity]

Started off yesterday with Back.

Chins x30 (in 5 sets)
BB Row x10 x10 x8
Rack Pulls x8 x8 x6 x5
BB Curl x10 x10
Lat Pulldown x12

Sore as hell this morning no way I could workout again today which has really hit home the need for rest days. My Bi's are killing too more than ever before and I only hit them with two sets diretly.

Liking this so far thanks for the advice all