3 x full body routines for beginners is broscience bullshit. A beginner can train splits no problem. What kills most beginners is far too many isolation exercises and fluff rather than focusing on multi joint / compound exercises.
A beginner could easily do
Chest / Tri / Biceps (benches, dips, chins etc)
Legs / Shoulders (Squats, leg press, hammy curls, OHP, Side dumbells)
Back / Bi's / Calves (Deads. Pull Ups, Rows, Barbell Curl, Stand / Seated calf)
or similar
"it is absolutely unclear which criteria one should use for selecting proper intervals between consecutive workouts." (Science and Practice of Strength Training 13)
Although I was looking for a good bodybuilding template that hit the body parts twice a week for 2015
but it's hard without training 6 days a week
maybe I will just train 6 days a week
maybe not
I want to do some strongman stuff and competing in the odd PL, but focus on bodybuilding
so maybe 5/3/1 with a strongman events day on saturday is the ticket
who knows, plenty of time to think
What's the difference between frequency and volume?
Cube method for strongman- jacob tibskin
Problem solved
I've been reading/watching a few things on the internet and I've heard a few times now that 3xweekly full body workouts are best for the beginner, and once a week work is best for the advanced bodybuilder.
What are peoples thoughts on this?
I'm looking at routines to do next year but I'm not sure if I'm 'ready' for a once a week per bodypart routine - then again my current 2xweekly workout has stalled big time.
[MENTION=8399]0ni[/MENTION];for me frequency is how often you train
volume is number of lifts you're doing. Monthly, weekly, in the session wahtever
increasing frequency will allow you to do more volume- over a week or month
maybe less in each session unless inhuman recovery
[MENTION=8399]0ni[/MENTION];
"volume is number of lifts you're doing"
You mean lifts as-in Repetitons?
Yes, I count number of reps over 50% as my "volume"
I also log total tonnage
This can be used for average intensity
If in doubt, go to a split. You will never look back. There are plenty of options, start from how many days you can train and build your split and the workouts from there.
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