Sentences with phrase «given muscle group»

Split routines also offer the advantage that greater volume can be achieved for a given exercise (5 sets of 5 reps) within a reasonable time, and that workouts can take place on successive days whilst giving muscle groups that have been targeted the previous day a chance to recover.

With this useful information, you should allow at least 48 hours of recovery time before hitting a given muscle group again.

By allowing 48 hours of minimum rest between training sessions for a given muscle group you «ll be well on your way to get the best results for to hypertrophy.

If you want to have a well balanced physique, you need to give every muscle group the attention it deserves — and prioritize the weak muscle groups.

This isn't just annoying — it limits the amount of work you can do with a given muscle group each week, which in turn limits the amount of muscle and strength you can gain.

Conventional muscle building wisdom holds that you should allow at least 48 hours of recovery time between exercise sessions for a given muscle group.

They should be performed a maximum of only once in a week for any given muscle group and for no more than 3 to 4 sets of 4 to 6 reps (if you can do more than 6 reps, you're not using enough weight).

A superset is a time saving device in many cases, and in my cases, it was used to give each muscle group an extra «pop.»

I don't recommend it because I don't feel you give each muscle group enough stimulus, but it worked for Pitt.

However, although an in - depth discussion on this topic is far beyond the scope of this post, I do think it there is some relevance, and I'd argue that increased EMG levels do make a given exercise more likely to be effective at developing a given muscle group than exercises that show much lower EMG levels.

For those involved with programs that allow a full 24 hours (or more) between exhaustive bouts for a given muscle group, the speed of glycogen replenishment (and thus GI of your post-exercise carbs — or all of your carbs for that matter) has no bearing on the goal as long as the daily carb total is met.

We'll leave all the science - y stuff for the links below, but the goal is to perform 7 sets as the last exercise for a given muscle group.

Blasting a given muscle group may be valuable exercise — just don't expect it to spot reduce fat.