Body/neuro type and training

Training
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I realize that I make the best muscle gains in the following way:

5 days split, 2 on 1 off or sometumes 1 on 1 off, body parts hit every 7-10 days, relatively high volume, long session and good variety of lifts for a muscle

Whenever I did more frequency, more body parts together or push/pull/legs (if I am abroad for a long time and my life isnt regular for example), I deflate. Even when it’s just that I had a minimal gym during covid

It’s when I go back to the former way that I hit back my peak, and I get bigger all over

I am natural and very advanced.

Stumbled upon youtube shorts of Tom Platz saying arnold trained a certain way (6 days a week, very high volume and lighter weights), mike mentzer completely another way (low frequency and volume, very high intensity) and that he was in between. He made the link to arnold being more tall and lean and him more mesomorphic, and that made arnold handle more volume and him more intensity but less frequency

And knowing Lee Haney did 3 on 1 off for the full split them repeat (high frequency), Dorian did like Mentzer but less extreme, Jay Cutler doing more standard stuff over 7 days, etc

I am wondering if there is something to people responding really differently to different split parameters?

Here it is usually presented as simply a choice to do either a 4 days split, push-pull, whole body multiple times a week, etc, like if it was simply a matter of convenience and different flavor

But different people might respond a lot better to one parameter set over the other, while it’s the opposite for some, so it’s not simply a matter of convenience and choice

This isn’t talked about

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Pics or it didn’t happen.

Yes. It’s more recovery-based than genetics-based, but recovery is partially dictated by genetics so… yeah.

It really is.
Like a lot.

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So someone that could recover in 3 days like Haney would be 3 times bigger than someone that would train every 9 days like Mentzer.

That is not it

Don’t worry about it

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Then why say anything about it? Fuckin lol

I didn’t say this.

You didn’t come here to listen to other viewpoints, you wanted others to hear you talk.
Prove me wrong.

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You just said it is recovery based

If it is about recovery and I recover faster than others, then I can train, recover faster and get the results faster than the others. Haney wasn’t bigger than Yates even though he trained a body part more often. Nonsense

So I don’t get the kind of dumbass replies you gave me but that is too late

Yes I am a lot better than you

Next

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Your stay here will be short lived.

Enjoy it

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The extra grams of gear probably helped.

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Ok then, they were from slightly different eras.

How about Mike Mentzer vs Arnold then?They have two opposite style of training

Would Arnold have done better training like Mentzer or would Mentzer have done better training like Arnold?

Realistically they probably both would have done worse if they adopted the training style of the other (otherwise they would have evolved into it naturally).

So what is the determinant that makes someone progress better with a set of parameters and not another while it’s the opposite for someone else? And is there any general pattern for that?

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Ok, I actually lol’ed. Imagine posting on a forum: "I’m a physicist and very advanced… BTW I’m wondering if there is something to this whole wave-particle duality…

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