Sentences with phrase «bodypart once»

You CAN and should train your bodyparts more frequently, especially if you're using exercises that overlap, e.g. deadlifts and squats both stress similar muscle groups yet you could work deadlifts on a «back» day and squats on a «leg» day and still call it working a bodypart once per week.

Not exact matches

I should note that many fall at the opposite extreme of training, hitting a bodypart for one set once per week or what have you.

With advanced bodybuilding workouts, typically each day is a separate bodypart so that each is only worked once per week.

Because you are pushing yourself harder, it takes you longer to recover between workouts so you are on a 3 day on, 1 day off workout cycle so each bodypart gets exercises once every four days.

It's also not a technique you should use every training session - maybe once every week or two for a bodypart.

It's not necessarily wrong to train a bodypart just once a week.

Jeff suggests not training a bodypart more than once a week, in order to allow for full recovery before training it directly again.

it took a long time for me to build up to the point where i could do a 5 × 50 twice a week program, and it will be at least a year before i'm ready for a 10 × 50 once a week bodypart split.

That, or do a 5 × 100 once a week per bodypart.

Doing it once a week on a bodypart split would be worse than doing a 5 × 5 3x a week, because despite the additional rest time, you get repetitive stress injuries from trying to do all those heavy sets in one workout.

That's once a week per bodypart, not 3x a week.

if you can handle 10 sets, you do a once a week bodypart split.

You don't want to go over 500 reps a week total, so for a 5x program, you have to stick with 50 reps on a twice a week schedule, or do a 10 × 50 for each bodypart on a once a week bodypart split (that's totally hardass; I don't recommend it unless you're very advanced and you need a bodypart split to add in arm days and such).

This could also be why high level bodybuilders using a high rep protocol could get better gains from a once a week bodypart split than novices using the same low frequency protocol with lower reps.

• Rest just to get your breath and then, proceed with the cycle, once again working your first bodypart.

Training each bodypart only once a week and with only one set is simply not enough to get your muscles to grow.

Curtis: At our age, is hitting a bodypart to failure once a week superior to a more traditional two - times - a-week routine?