I make topic to discuss about training ( while on use steroids, i think people who are using it are very experienced about bodybuilding lifestyle )…
The most people is finding that training one body part per week, 3-4 days in week, is only one, the best option. Something like 9-16 sets per body part and NOT MORE becouse you will be overtrain! Is it really truth? What do you think? What’s yours experience?
From me… I love this fking sport ( maybe not sport, fking LIFESTYLE; dieting, training, sleeping and repeat! ). My the best two hours from day are when i’m in gym. I divided my body on 4 training session:
Legs + ABS
Shoulders + Triceps
Back + Traps
Chest + Biceps
I’m training sometimes 5, sometimes 6, sometimes 7 days a week. I take a break when i feel i need it. I do 20-30mins cardio after every training. About sets, reps, weights, rest between sets and something like that. I don’t have nothing cut and dried. It is something like 25 sets per body part, something like 15 sets, something like 5x5 in main exercise, something like 12+ reps in every set. I mean intuition.
What is your plan and experience about training style?
[quote]Abkol wrote:
I’m training sometimes 5, sometimes 6, sometimes 7 days a week. I take a break when i feel i need it. I do 20-30mins cardio after every training. About sets, reps, weights, rest between sets and something like that. I don’t have nothing cut and dried. It is something like 25 sets per body part, something like 15 sets, something like 5x5 in main exercise, something like 12+ reps in every set. I mean intuition.[/quote]
Sounds great to me man.
Right now my split looks like this: Legs/Back/Chest+Delts/Arms/Back+Legs (pump)/Chest+Delts/Arms
I love lifting, and I’m something of a volume nut. I think that I’m just getting to the point, however, where I need to start letting go of what I “want” to do in favor of approaches that allow for better progress. On some level, the body regulates itself. Today was leg day for me. My work sets were 365x15, 395x10, 415x8. When I was squatting lower weights, I could have gotten to my “top set” and kept fairly close to that for a number of sets (think of, e.g., the 5x5 approach). I’ve been finding recently that my body is more fatigued than I even realize after doing those worksets. Today, for example, I wanted to do a second set of 415 but got to my 4th rep and realized that it wasn’t happening, at least under the time between set protocol that I’m currently running. I’ve been having a similar situation with bench press, though that’s also because it’s starting to wear on my joints I think.
That is just to say that things will change over time, and not necessarily because you “want” them to. Just train hard and listen to your body.