At the gym 6-7 days a week

[colos99]

I often read that people say not to go to the gym 6-7 days a week and I was wondering why?

If 1 were doing a split program that did a full body workout over 3 days and then take a 1 day break and then repeat that gives each muscle group 3 days rest between workouts.

What's wrong with that?

day 1 chest Tri's and shoulders
Day 2 Back & Bi's
Day 3 Legs
Rest and Repeat

 

[assassin]

the problem is that your nervous system gets so tired when doing weights..and it'll not be able to recover..so since the purpose of bb is tearing muscle fibers /eat , recover .then if you don't rrecover properly you won't be able to progress well ..also working 6-7 times a weak is impossible .. unless you are on shit loads of drugs and steroids like competitive body builders, if you are natural then you don't need more than 2-4 times per week to workout withweights to reach your maximum building rate ...

 

[assassin]

training with weights is taxing on the whole body , you can do cardio 10 times per week , but you could only do weights 3-4 times per week..read the stickies.

 

[JimSnow]

Just a note. When I was working my legs as a bicyclist, in my 20's (I'm an old fart now, "officially?"), there was a small faction of guys that always seemed to be in the gym. The year I was there... none of them seemed to get any larger or more developed.

They were always working, but not very "intensely" by my evaluation. "Gym Rats", I guess you'd call them?

Will we ever learn?

 

[assassin]

yeah when you train more than 3-4 times per week you are over training and you may suffer catabolism (llosing mass) instead of gaining .. you also may overtrain while training just 3-4 times..

 

[assassin]

by the way if you work 6-7 times as you said you'll gain mass as long you are still a newbie ( maximum at the first 2 months of training) they are called noob gains as your body is still not used to th weights so it'll have to do some transformation to be able to handle it...

 

[viet_jon]

by the way if you work 6-7 times as you said you'll gain mass as long you are still a newbie

Yup, key word, newbie. I got bigger than I was aiming for. But after 4-5 months, gains don't come so easily. By then you'll need a solid program with lots of rest & recovery.

 

[JimSnow]

Yup, key word, newbie. I got bigger than I was aiming for. But after 4-5 months, gains don't come so easily. By then you'll need a solid program with lots of rest & recovery.

"Solid Program" is the key, I think. I've gained a lot of insight here. Let's see how I do a year from my last posted gallery image.

Please read that "stuff" at the top of the homepage.

 

[PWGriffin]

"Solid Program" is the key, I think. I've gained a lot of insight here. Let's see how I do a year from my last posted gallery image.

Please read that "stuff" at the top of the homepage.

all of my lifts are WAY up since I started a solid program with periodization..I've gained a bunch of weight (prolly a grip of fat) too.

 

[JimSnow]

all of my lifts are WAY up since I started a solid program with periodization..I've gained a bunch of weight (prolly a grip of fat) too.

Funny, you should say that. While I'm here in this thread, I've got paperwork printed off this site on "undulating periodization". Inherently makes sense to me. Trying to figure out at what proportions I can incorporate powerlifting.

I find many of my instinctual methods have 'proven basis'.

I'm suppossed to be outlining my workout for the next six months. I'll cut out a lot of wasted energy, my gameplan.

 

[CowPimp]

Because you grow and adapt while you are resting, not while you are working out. There are other forms of exercise that will tax different energy systems and will be less strenuous on your nervous system if you simply enjoy working out and feel like you want to workout more frequently. I feel that lifting weights more than three or four times a week is not needed.

I have been going with three times per week for the past several months and I think I'll stick with that at this point. It allows more time for GPP work on the other days of the week.