Oh yeah, in an interview Ryan Kennelly states he trains 6 times a week as a bench only competitor.
It can certainly be done
Whether best for a 'weekend warrior' is an altogether different debate
I mean all the best athletes in the world train with high volume and high frequency
But they are all athletes, not regular people
We should be doing what every mediocre athlete that hasn't achieved anything is doing
That makes perfect sense
So, train like the pros?
Like the muscle and fiction magazines, their pulling the wool over you young blokes eyes, hook line and sinker, but go right ahead do what they say, darkoz and I are also going by experience and we have nothing to sell.
Obviously you guys have plenty of lifting experience and I know I have learnt plenty from your posts but have either of you ever trained with the goal of maximal strength in powerlifting or O lifting.
Strength is most definitely a skill
You get stronger by practising the exercises and teaching your body to be more efficient
Andy can you see my frustration when you use your 20+ years experience as an argument as to why a high frequency routine would not work when you have little to no experience with high frequency barbell lifting?
Actually, i'd argue strength is party a skill (CNS learning) and partly muscular adaptation, at least in so far as strength is measured in the ability to perform an exercise with a given weight.
Arguably at professional levels, the CNS patterns are near perfect and thus strength gains are almost purely muscular adaptation and very small improvements in technique whereas a beginners strength gains are likely more technique and CNS learning movement patterns than muscular fiber gain.
My uneducated 2c anyway since it's my thread
The movement is a skill that gets more efficient and easier as we do it. I think that may have been what Andy was getting at.
I don't know why you would train chest or back in the AM, return in the PM later that day and train it again?
Maybe your not training hard enough perhaps?
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