He doesn’t always do the same amount of reps each day though. Sometimes he has heavy days, etc. And he doesn’t always do the same excercises. He replaces Barbell Bench Press with Dumbell Bench Press, etc.
Is his routine overtraining? Because he has made some gains from it.
He’s 15 and most likely just starting he could jerk off for multiple sets each day and expect arm hypertrophy. So what im trying to say is ANYTHING with resistance and he is consistant at is going to do something. Hell for any of us it will do something.
Is it the worst NO the best NO. If its giving good results stick with it for a bit and then change things even just exercises to get some different areas not being hit soi hard now.
Let’s see, he’s doing 120 sets a week.
Of course he’s over training. He may see results for a short period, but that will end.
He does 5x8 of almost everything, except squats and calf raises. There’s no reasoning to it. Seems like the typically confused muscle mag reader.
No he does 5x8 on his intermediate days. He does 5x5 on his heavy days. And 5x12 on his light days. But he never does less than 8 reps on squats or 12 reps on calfraises.
[quote]Baller1950 wrote:
…that seems to be working for him.[/quote]
And that’s really all that matters isn’t it?
It’s impossible to predict exactly how somebody will react to a certain workout program. You can’t say somebody is overtraining just by reading their program over the internet.
If he’s making progress, then it’s a good split. Once he stops making progress, then he’s going to have to change something and if he’s smart enough to do that he’ll probably keep making progress.