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3 days a week enough

  • 04-05-2011 4:01pm
    #1
    Tonto86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭


    Im currently doing a standard 3 day split. Is 3 days enough?

    I've read before to induce proper muscle growth you should exercise each muscle group twice weekly.... on my 3 day split it would be only once weekly.


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  • #2
    pachey100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭pachey100


    Have you ever thought of doing 3 full body workouts a week?

    I tried doing a 3 day split and a 4 split but I just find I dont get the same buzz as a full body or the completely bolloxed feeling that a good full body gives me:D


  • #3
    King of Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    Tonto86 wrote: »
    Im currently doing a standard 3 day split. Is 3 days enough?

    I've read before to induce proper muscle growth you should exercise each muscle group twice weekly.... on my 3 day split it would be only once weekly.

    if it's three day a week lifting and you are training something else some of the other days : then yes that's fine.

    If you are only training 3 days with nothing else then imo that's inadequate, if you want good results rather than just ok ones.


  • #4
    Satanta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Satanta


    Exercise with enough intensity on your 3 day split and it will be enough. Your muscles dont grow in the gym... they grow afterwards in the recovery phase. Not enough recovery and you will inhibit growth. Instead of upping the number of times per week you exercise each muscle group, focus on training them intensly on your current training days. Keep recovery between sets to 60 seconds and train to failure on your last 2 sets per exercise.


  • #5
    BossArky
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    Tonto86 wrote: »
    Im currently doing a standard 3 day split. Is 3 days enough?

    I've read before to induce proper muscle growth you should exercise each muscle group twice weekly.... on my 3 day split it would be only once weekly.

    My 2c...

    Quality, not quantity.

    I train two days a week for the past 16 months. Two hard workouts per week, good nutrition & lots of sleep. Deadlift has gone up 30kg (150-->180). Squat up 35kg (115-->150).

    A couple of years ago I would train 4 or 5 days a week and was going around in circles. I was too exhausted to make progress and was burning off the cals that I should have been using to grow / recover.


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