I train every body part twice a week

[GUNS/Navarone]

yes train them twice a week and make sure you take some gear too for the recovery efforts or this advice is crap unless your young and eating a shitload.

With all respect, I am not making this into a flame, but with a statement like that it just dose not make sense unless you know his exact sets reps and intensity, also an individuals recovery time.
Be a little bit more open to other ideas otherwise that advise you gave is, well, crap

It's the same old story;
Those that believe one traing method over another.

 

[b fold the truth]

There is no way that I could train a full bodybuilding type of leg routine...twice a week. No freaking way...

B True

 

[coolcolj]

I reckon gowth is much faster if your train each muscle more frequently but without killing yourself so that you need to take a week off to recover.

Coax your gains rather than crowbar them out

I don't think hitting a muscle harder will result in greater growth, most probably your body grows the same amount each time, regardless of the stress magnitude. SO by just doing enough to trigger growth, and doing it frequently you get a snowball effect.
Rather than one big bash, and then by the time you wait a week to recover, your probably regressing slightly already.

Once a week is like 52 times a year, without any breaks that is, that's not a whole lot of workouts for one year IMO. No wonder it would takes years to get going. If you stuff up one workout, having to wait one week to make ammends would be frustrating to me.

 

[louden_swain]

As long as you are eating and sleeping enough, there shouldn't be a problem. Good luck! I think Ronnie Coleman practices a similar routine.

 

[spatts]

I train each part twice a week. Once for strength and once for speed, and all accesory work at the same volume. I even do second workouts of OL moves 4 days a week, and sprint or sled drag on the inbetween days.

Overtraining is not the same as underrecovering.

I do active recovery EVERY DAY, ice/heat, massage, eat well, take my glutamine, etc... and I never feel like "shit."

I've put on ALOT of size with this, and I'm alot leaner while doing it (as opposed to the bulking/cutting crap I had to go through as a BB).

 

[b fold the truth]

I train each part twice a week. Once for strength and once for speed, and all accesory work at the same volume. I even do second workouts of OL moves 4 days a week, and sprint or sled drag on the inbetween days.

Overtraining is not the same as underrecovering.

We train similarly...so to speak. My hams get hit twice a week...but with totally different exercises through compound movements... Once with GM's or Deads and another time with box squats... I don't really consider that 2x per week.

What is your take on this?

B True

 

[Hannibal]

We train similarly...so to speak. My hams get hit twice a week...but with totally different exercises through compound movements... Once with GM's or Deads and another time with box squats... I don't really consider that 2x per week.

What is your take on this?

B True

Yeah but Glut Ham Raises...and Reverse Hypers are AT LEAST 2X a week. I personally do them alot more often than that.

 

[spatts]

I alternate accessory work, and sometimes squat day has GM's and other days it has deads. If I do 3 sets of 15 on a ME day for accessory work, I do 6 sets of 8 on a similar movement on speed day...same volume (roughly 45-48 reps).

Always 2 core compound movments and then an accessory move for each of the components. For example, max bench day is 2 ME effort bench moves (like 2 board press then close grip press), then an acc. move for shoulders, one for tris, and one for lats. I may add a second workout of OL moves, like hang snatches, to build the upper back/shoulder too.

 

[b fold the truth]

Yeah but Glut Ham Raises...and Reverse Hypers are AT LEAST 2X a week. I personally do them alot more often than that.

I don't see how you do GHR's with intensity 2+x per week... If I do them once a week...I am sore for days.

B True

 

[Hannibal]

I don't see how you do GHR's with intensity 2+x per week... If I do them once a week...I am sore for days.

B True

Well its BECAUSE I do them those extra times at lower intensity...that I can handle hitting them hard twice a week without getting sore. Work Capacity....which reminds me. Have you been dragging the sled??