Am I Training Enough?

Bigger Stronger Leaner Competitive Bodybuilding
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Ok, so if I sound like an idiot please have patience. I did a lot of research but I still can’t find any real answers to my questions.

So the deal with me is that I decided about a month ago that since I was never very sore from working out that my workout was too easy or that I was stuck in a rut and needed to change it. I changed it up, doing different exercises that target muscles in different ways or increase isolation. Now I get very sore (but in the good way) and it lasts a whole week so instead of doing upper body twice a week and lower body twice a week I can only hit upper and lower once a week each.

My question is: if it takes me a whole week to recover from my upper body workout (for example), will I lose mass? Is this too long or is a week about right to wait for a muscle to recover from a really intense workout? I eat like a horse, get over a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight and I sleep 8 hours a night. I don’t know if I’m doing this right anymore because I’m not really seeing any results from my workout change. Just when I thought I had it down, I’m all confused again. Thanks for any help you guys.

Mike

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Testosterone-Nation rule #436 - Thy shall not judge thy progress by pain

If you don’t train your muslces often, eg once a week, then they will never recover much quicker, because there is no reason too. Work the pain, train twice a week, and youll recover in half a week. Sounds irrational, appears to work.

Begginner needs constant muscle hammering. Forget the pain, and aim for 2x a week or so for each muscle group, and you’ll likely find yourself in less pain overall, and with better progress. You are not likely to lose muscle needing a week to recover, unless you are going endurance style and stop eating over maintenance, but you won’t grow at your peak.

Don’t forget muscle growth slows the more you have.

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post your routine both past and present.
Once per week will work, but is it optimal? That is a pissing match in about 200 threads

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No. You should be so tired after training that you don’t have the urge to masturbate. You’ll know you’ve had an intense training session when this happens.