Workout Frenquency...

**ACAZORES** · 10-09-2007, 06:00 PM

whats the best approach to workout a bodypart? The normal is every 7 days but I hear pros doing it every 9 days, I also heard mike mentzer saying something like every 14 days, whats the best appraoch, I have found out that the more we rest the better.

**Ronnie Rowland** · 10-09-2007, 06:24 PM

Mike Mentzer got very looney as time progressed.

Training each muscle group once a week is as good as it gets when trying to hypertrophy the muscles to the maximum. Why? It's because a 5 day split allows each muscle group to be trained with both volume and intensity before CNS fatigue sets in.

Most pros train a body part once every 7 days not every 9.

**ACAZORES** · 10-09-2007, 10:26 PM

why 7 ? and not 6 or 8?

**sonnygll** · 10-09-2007, 11:31 PM

Not everyone does it that way all the time. High frequency training is another method. It is also quite effective.

http://www.t- nation.com/readArticle.do?id=905832

Some people workout out as much as twice a day 4 days a week, working every muscle 4 times a week.

**nightowlman** · 10-10-2007, 04:10 PM

I've wondered the same thing. I'll blast a muscle, and it can feel recovered after about 3-4 days. I feel like I'm losing valuable time if I let it rest until the next week so I'll work it again. Seems to be working for me - I'm hitting fewer plateaus this way than I was when working muscles only once every week.

**manwitplans** · 10-10-2007, 04:41 PM

Started doing full body workouts three times a week.
Every muscle three times a week.

Nearing upon the finish of 2 week of 6-8.
Strength: Clearly up, weight up, appearance up.

I`ll stick with this from now on, for sure.

Btw: Its a HST program.

**sonnygll** · 10-10-2007, 10:38 PM

Yea, HST is another form of high frequency. It is the main protocol advocated by Alwyn Cosgrove. One of my 3 favorite coaches who's methods I have studied in detail. Chad Waterbury and Charles Poliquin being the other 2.

**B.E.N.** · 10-19-2007, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by nightowlman

I've wondered the same thing. I'll blast a muscle, and it can feel recovered after about 3-4 days. I feel like I'm losing valuable time if I let it rest until the next week so I'll work it again. Seems to be working for me - I'm hitting fewer plateaus this way than I was when working muscles only once every week.

I know the feeling but research has indicated that muscles take much longer to recover/heal than initially thought.

I will have to find the study. They used forearms exercises and found that they participants did not fully recover for somethign like 30 days. I am sure they were not following optimal diets like most here or on any supps/AAS. But the jist was that it takes muscle longer to recover than thought.

Back to the old saying...you don't grow in the gym.