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Question: What happens if you train a muscle everyday?????
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JohnRobHolmes
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When using lighter volume and lighter intensity compared to "normal" workouts, everyday working out is no problem at all.
Following the assumption that everyday training is counterproductive, people like climbers, mountain bikers, and crack dealers would die from exhaustion from their respective daily climbing, biking, and running from the cops. I dont see many avid climbers with lack of climbing strength, or many crack slingers with lack of hauling ass.
Following the assumption that everyday training is counterproductive, people like climbers, mountain bikers, and crack dealers would die from exhaustion from their respective daily climbing, biking, and running from the cops. I dont see many avid climbers with lack of climbing strength, or many crack slingers with lack of hauling ass.
Yea...thats what I was wondering. Look at farmers or construction workers. I know each of both who are massive (muscular not fat) but they never work out. They just do heavy work (which involves lifting) everyday and get the muscle. If it is dangerous, I probably won't try it but what about those people? Why haven't thier muscles broken down.
JohnRobHolmes
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It depends on what your goals are. If you want to be bigger, then I would think that having more rest would help. If you simply want strength, then you could get away with more frequent low volume workouts.
Farmers and construction workers dont break down because they get conditioned to the work. They arent as stong the first day of labor as they are a few years into it. They start light, just like you will have to. After a while, they can lift all day and still have enough energy left to give the wife some pleasure.
Do you just want to get strong, or are you just wondering what your body will handle?
Farmers and construction workers dont break down because they get conditioned to the work. They arent as stong the first day of labor as they are a few years into it. They start light, just like you will have to. After a while, they can lift all day and still have enough energy left to give the wife some pleasure.
Do you just want to get strong, or are you just wondering what your body will handle?
What happens to a muscle if you work it everyday depends on how hard you work it. If you really get in there and do some microtrauma every day it will tear down and down without building back up. If you work it moderately, without tearing it down, then it will just get more and more conditioned, and tough and resilient as shoe leather, and very resistant to growth. Endurance will be great, but I dont think it would grow much. It would just get more and more dense.
ghettostudmuffin
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Holmes, you are hilarious. Would give ya K by I gotta spread it.
It's is all about intensity variation and frequency of intensity.
I work what many would call a hard labor type of job and the first 3-4 months I was tired from it and would get physically drained at work. Now I can work a hard day running around hills, picking up big rocks and shoveling, and still have the gusto to go and set new pr's in the gym prvided I sleep and eat enough. BUT, every day is not like this. Some days I pretty much just spot a more experienced heavy equipment operator and stand there all day. EASY. Sometimes I'm working in a machine and then getting out to do the finishing touches by hand. Others I'm packing block all day by hand. It varies.
Imo, you can train muscles every day, but how hard you train them and/or how much volume you use should be adjusted. One day you could go for like 50-100 bodyweight dips and 250 pushups in a workout for your pressing muscles. That's relatively low intensity/high volume. The next day you hit bench bench with 75% of your normal weight for this exercise for 50-75 reps total and dumbell shoulder press with 1/8th bodyweight for 50-75 total reps. That's medium volume, medium intensity. Then the next day you do singles on barbell bench in 10lbs jumps up to a max single or like 90-95% of your max. That's it. Probably rest and repeat or whatever.
Changing the intensity of exercise and workload is great, but also consider changing the exercise because that affects the nervous system too.
It's is all about intensity variation and frequency of intensity.
I work what many would call a hard labor type of job and the first 3-4 months I was tired from it and would get physically drained at work. Now I can work a hard day running around hills, picking up big rocks and shoveling, and still have the gusto to go and set new pr's in the gym prvided I sleep and eat enough. BUT, every day is not like this. Some days I pretty much just spot a more experienced heavy equipment operator and stand there all day. EASY. Sometimes I'm working in a machine and then getting out to do the finishing touches by hand. Others I'm packing block all day by hand. It varies.
Imo, you can train muscles every day, but how hard you train them and/or how much volume you use should be adjusted. One day you could go for like 50-100 bodyweight dips and 250 pushups in a workout for your pressing muscles. That's relatively low intensity/high volume. The next day you hit bench bench with 75% of your normal weight for this exercise for 50-75 reps total and dumbell shoulder press with 1/8th bodyweight for 50-75 total reps. That's medium volume, medium intensity. Then the next day you do singles on barbell bench in 10lbs jumps up to a max single or like 90-95% of your max. That's it. Probably rest and repeat or whatever.
Changing the intensity of exercise and workload is great, but also consider changing the exercise because that affects the nervous system too.
JohnRobHolmes
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GhettoStudMuffin said:
I would beg to differ depending on the purpose of training. If you are solely going for big mucles, yes mix it up a bit more. If you are going for strength or power, then don't mix it up until your CNS really knows the routine and it comes natural. Then you can mix it up from the base of power or strength that you created. Of course a more trained athelete will have the strength/ power base already and they can get on with the mixing as long as its not spreading things out too thin.
ghettostudmuffin
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I disagree with your opinion there holmes.
It is a proven fact that continually pushing it hard on the same exercises will lead to cns burnout.
Some would argue against that because of the success of single and DF 5x5 routines which are excellent, but not the holy grail. The most positive aspect of these routines I believe is they focus on heavy compound exercises and show that a muscle can be trained more than this once a week crap.
Even then 5x5 should not be used forever. Your gains will slow because your body will adapt to it. Strength gains will slow. The basics of using compound exercises is the one constant that shouldn't change, but even then they can vary like barbell bench or dumbell bench etc.
But, this is off the point. My original response was based on whether or not you can work a muscle every day or very frequently like every other day. IT can be done. Using the smae exercises and modulating the exercise volume and intensity will work for a good deal of time, but the body is an amazingly adaptive organism and responds best to variation. Excess in any one thing generally proves this theory as it leads to burnout.
You would be able to train more intensely overall at a higher % of max by varying your exercises as well as the volume and intensity levels.
Kind of reminds of Westside training principles. You can train hard very often if the exercises change, but are similar in nature because they tax the cns a little differently and since the cns responds well to constantly changing stimulae it lessens the possibility of over-training.
If constantly using the exact same exercises then you really do need to consistently vary intensity and volume whereas with changing exercises you can train harder more frequently and technically make better strength gains provided you use like exercises that have carryover.
It is a proven fact that continually pushing it hard on the same exercises will lead to cns burnout.
Some would argue against that because of the success of single and DF 5x5 routines which are excellent, but not the holy grail. The most positive aspect of these routines I believe is they focus on heavy compound exercises and show that a muscle can be trained more than this once a week crap.
Even then 5x5 should not be used forever. Your gains will slow because your body will adapt to it. Strength gains will slow. The basics of using compound exercises is the one constant that shouldn't change, but even then they can vary like barbell bench or dumbell bench etc.
But, this is off the point. My original response was based on whether or not you can work a muscle every day or very frequently like every other day. IT can be done. Using the smae exercises and modulating the exercise volume and intensity will work for a good deal of time, but the body is an amazingly adaptive organism and responds best to variation. Excess in any one thing generally proves this theory as it leads to burnout.
You would be able to train more intensely overall at a higher % of max by varying your exercises as well as the volume and intensity levels.
Kind of reminds of Westside training principles. You can train hard very often if the exercises change, but are similar in nature because they tax the cns a little differently and since the cns responds well to constantly changing stimulae it lessens the possibility of over-training.
If constantly using the exact same exercises then you really do need to consistently vary intensity and volume whereas with changing exercises you can train harder more frequently and technically make better strength gains provided you use like exercises that have carryover.
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