My goal is to get ripped. But I don’t want to hurt myself. But I do want to push myself to the max everytime so I can get to my goal as quickly as possible. So I have been doing a full body workout (Chest, Triceps, Back, Biceps, Quads, Hamstrings, Shoulders, Calves and Abs) every other day. (Including Weekends)
But someone told me that working out for 2 hours every other day is not healthy and that I should break my workout down to (I get this from “Dawg School”)
Monday: Chest,Triceps
Tue Back,Biceps
Wed: Off
Thurs: Quads,Hamstrings
Fri: Shoulders,Calves,Abs
Sat&Sun: Off
Okay my question is If I workout on my Chest, Triceps on Monday, and I don’t work on them until “next” Monday. How am I going to reach my goal soon? I can’t see how working your muscle once aweek will benefit me at all in short term. I have alot more time in my day to workout more then 1 hour.
Or am I not seeing the whole pitcher here?
I’m new to all this so I have alot to learn still.
I have alot of time I can workout and I would like to use that time as much as possible.
I’m really looking to get inshape and build muscle Quickly, but not Stupidly.
Any Advice would be helpful.
Thank You
No, you’re not seeing the whole picture. You have come to the right place for information, though. Overtraining can actually be just as bad, if not worse, as undertraining. If you like the full body, every other day approach, try the HST workout; but the Dawg School workout you mentioned would also work well.
Go read the FAQ. Click on current issue, let the page load, find the FAQ in the current issue button. Full body workouts for 2 hours are probably turning catabolic (bad). You can work your muscles more than once a week. But again, read the FAQ, then ask more specific questions. Also, you’re not going to reach your goals soon. People who think they can often don’t stick with it very long. When it comes to what we all want, it takes patience and knowledge.
Getting “ripped” has been, in my experience, largely a matter of diet. Calorie control is key: eat less than you burn and the fat will come off.
In regards to training, your full-body approach is, IMO, correct. You might try just training three days each week, with each workout lasting no more than one hour. Remember, quality, not quantity. I’d also suggest restructuring your routine so that your thighs are worked first, back second, then continue as planned.
As far as having a lot of time on your hands, don’t make the mistake of thinking that a lot of training is the same as hard training - the latter of which is far more productive. I think the quote “Instead of seeing how much exercise we can tolerate, we should instead try to determine how little exercise is needed for growth” is appropriate here. I certainly agree that 2 hours of resistance training every other day is too much, but I disagree that a split is the answer.