Sentences with phrase «per muscle group only»

A moderate volume workout of around 6 - 9 sets per muscle group only depletes about 36 - 39 % of your muscle glycogen.7, 8 If you do more than that in two workouts within eight hours, eating carbs soon after your first workout is a good idea.

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While subjects doing aerobic and resistance training lost the same amount of weight as their strength - only counterparts, those in the strength group lost almost 100 per cent of their weight in fat, while those splitting their workouts lost a chunk of their weight from muscle.

-- Each muscle group is trained with only one exercise per workout session.

If you have time to train only two or three times per week, this doesn't mean that you can't achieve some decent strength gain over time, especially if you try a full - body training in order to work with all muscle groups.

-- Drop the number of exercises to only 2 - 3 per muscle group.

The best thing about splits is they allow me plenty of time for recovery being that I'm only training certain muscle groups once per week.

I have two questions: 1 - You stated that the optimal volume when lifting in the range of 80 to 85 % of 1RM is around 60 to 80 reps per week per muscle group, but in your 5 days split each muscle group gets only 9 sets of 4 - 6 reps weekly (except chest and this will be in my second question) so in total its gonna be 54 reps per week which is not enough volume.

Not only are they multi-joint movements that target more than one muscle group per time that will increase your efficiency, but they also are the key factor in packing on lean muscle.

In other words, when you train a muscle group directly only once per week, the muscles might spend a few days «growing» after the workout.