[quote]T-Beast wrote:
Guys, i dont mean to highjack the forum. I life about 4 days a week, Kettle training. I have a guestion tho, im a personal trainer and manage a training studio, so i work 12 hours a day almost everyday, so how do some of you that live a similar lifestyle workout and stay motivated. I seem to get sick from being aorund the same equipment. I have sold equipment for gyms for 3 years, and personal trained for 2 years and been promoted to manager for the past 2 months. so the long hours just make me sick of thinking aobut training unleess i use shits of caffeine and kill it.
wayne- keep on keepin on dude, you have great genetics and hope gear is helping you surpass your natural abilities, i would love to train you sometime.
I just need help staying motivated… any thoughts? [/quote]
I stay motivated simply becuase it’s something I want to do. your issue seems to be that because you’re whole life is surrounding by the gym that the gym is no longer your outlet and you simply need another outlet as well…
I lift 6-7 days a week just depends mainly on my schedule, I don’t really seem to have a problem overtraining or getting burned out. Sometimes I take a week to deload, sometimes I’ll do a heavy chest/back day on monday and then light chest/back on friday.
I’ve been starting back up again since November and the muscle memory is in full effect. Lots of size and strength is back and fat is lost, but 7 days a week? No way.
I think I can handle 5 right now, since I’m regaining muscle. Btw, that’s 5 short full body workouts with different exercises and rep ranges in an effort to do more work. It’s pretty similar to Waterbury’s philosophy on lifting, but now that I’m getting stronger, this will definitely change.
I’ll end up going back to a split routine, aiming to hit every bodypart twice a week.
I think you’ve got genetics and age on your side and I shudder to think where you’d be if you did 3-4 training days a week.
I don’t take any planned days off. If life doesn’t get in the way, I train 7 days per week. Sometimes life does get in the way, and I take a day off, but I probably haven’t missed more than 1-2 days in the last month.
I’m currently doing my version of German Volume Training with a 3 day split.
Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest and Back
Day 3: Shoulders and Arms
I have an A and a B session for each, so I don’t repeat a routine for 6 days.
My sessions last less than 1 hour. Work has been nuts for the last 3-4 months, so I lift in the morning before work. If I wait until evening, I’m too frazzled, and I know I’ll skip it.
This seems to be working for me. I did a skin caliper test a couple of weeks ago, and according to that, I’ve put on about 10 lbs of muscle in the last 3 months. Unfortunately, I’ve also put on a fair amount of fat. I’d like to get in a few cardio/metabolic conditioning sessions per week, but that will have to wait until work settles down.
BTW, I’m 55, and the only supplements I take are creatine, protein powder, and vitamins.
I’ve been doing 5 days/week for a few years now. It started when I began MAX-OT like 4 or 5 years ago, and when I changed to different rep schemes about a year ago, I just kept it the same. Same split too.
Chest
Back
Legs
Shoulders
Arms
THis has worked well for me. I don’t like changing much, because I find it really tough to gauge progress. But progress has slowed/stopped for the past few months, and I’ve just been going through the motions. I tried switching to 3x/week full body, just to completely change it up, but I did one week of it, and I noticed 2 issues.
On the days I didnt train, I wanted to do something, so I’d do intense cardio
Sessions were really long and brutal. I think I have a mental block that I always have to train to failure or close to it… and when you’re working full body, its almost impossible to work that hard and still be able to function after the workout.
I believe the key for me to be able to remain consistent with the weights, is to work one muscle really hard, and then when I leave the gym I feel good, but I dont feel overworked.
I also always get smashed atleast on Friday or Saturday, if not both… so, I generally train Sunday-Thursday (This becomes Monday thru Friday if I drink hard Saturday night… so I try and keep my drinking to 1x/week… generally on Friday).
Felt good today. Got in a great chest workout, and then a 45 min incline walk while watching the first qtr of the steelers game. Im trying to lean up (drinking surely helps with this…), so Im doing alot of cardio recently. I just cant seem to control my diet, so I need to do more cardio to compensate…
currently 5’10, 205 and like 12% bf. Need to get to single digits at like 195 lbs.
Glad to hear from all my fellow T-Men, and good to hear everyone is getting results. Funny thing, I actually took Friday and Saturday off dude to some gay triceps injury, using the 70’s for 1 armed overhead extensions. On the 12th rep I just heard a riiiiiiip noise lol, hopefully its fine now. Anyways I lost 5 lbs during this 2 day off period, lol so I think I’ll stick with my 7 days
I have a leg session Saturday (heavy squats) and then again Tuesday (deadlift) for the first 4-6 weeks I was always training deadlifts with bad DOMS from the Saturday squats but it has gradually eased off and my legs are now ready to train come Tuesday.
My point is that the body does adapt to which ever training regime you impose upon it. Obviously this works only up to a certain point, finding this point is only done by trial and error and pushing boundries it’s a very individual thing but discovering your max work/recovery capacity is where optimum progress is to be made.
I currently train 4 days and that is working well for me just now.
OP is looking solid so your current plan is obviously working, keep it up!
I think it depends on the working and recovery capability of each one. It can be also dependant on how much intensity and volume you put per training session.
I personally find it way too much overload training even 6 days a week.
i have done just about everything, and i mean everything, when it comes to training. ihave made progress training everyday, and 2 times a week.
i am hitting the gym more ofter now cuz lifting is about the only exercise i get now, my elbow and foot problems keep me from pushing the prowler, dragging the sled, or boxing.
brian siders, ipf superheavyweight pl champion, trains 7 days a week sometimes twice a day with an insane amount of volume each day. check out his website, fucking insane!
when asked why he does this, he responded, something like, that he does not know of too many elite athletes that train only 3-4 times a week for an hour or two.
top level OLers train 6-7 times a week, 2-3 times a day HEAVY. go figure.
[quote]heavythrower wrote:
i have done just about everything, and i mean everything, when it comes to training. ihave made progress training everyday, and 2 times a week.
i am hitting the gym more ofter now cuz lifting is about the only exercise i get now, my elbow and foot problems keep me from pushing the prowler, dragging the sled, or boxing.
brian siders, ipf superheavyweight pl champion, trains 7 days a week sometimes twice a day with an insane amount of volume each day. check out his website, fucking insane!
when asked why he does this, he responded, something like, that he does not know of too many elite athletes that train only 3-4 times a week for an hour or two.
top level OLers train 6-7 times a week, 2-3 times a day HEAVY. go figure. [/quote]
I train twice a week, Tuesday & Friday.
When injury free:
Tue:
ME bench
BB Row
JM Press
Abs
prehab
Fri:
RE bench
heavy tris or OH press
pulldowns
DB Hammer curls
prehab
back raise.
I’m not the youngest (49) have a few injuries at the moment, no SQ or DL (yet) due to disc issues. I used to train 4 days per week but now have had to cut down due to prioritising family.
Some may not be training to their full potential, based on short term negative results from high frequency training. You have to stick with it and give your body time to adapt.
When I first started lifting, it was only 3x per week, which worked well at the time. Over the years I have increased to 5x intense training per week, and have had no problems with recovery.
I don’t think age is an excuse unless you are really old…I’m almost 43 and in better shape with better recovery than at any other time in my life.
