Posted by hoosegow on December 2, 2005, 3:10 am, in reply to "Re: train each muscle once per week"
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Depending on what your goal is, I'm with Scott. I personally (works for me) try to go with no more than two exercises per muscle or muscle area (eg big muscles such as the delts) with the number of sets changing with a heavy or light workout. For a chest example, Bench: Flat, Incline (upper delt), Decline (lower delts)
Dumbell flies: Incline, Decline.
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: Thanks for the response.
:
: quote "Point is, I'm pretty tuckered out after this
: workout"
:
: A full body work out with around 1 exercise, 3 sets of 10,
: hitting all of the upper body muscles, used to zap all of my
: energy but naturally, as time went on this became easier, I
: would finish the work out and still feel like I was ready for
: more, plus, no pain the next day. My full body work out
: eventually lasted up to 2 hours 30 mins. It was time to move on
: to something more intense, so I started hitting 2 muscles per
: day, workouts lasted from an hour to an hour and a half, I felt
: zapped and sore the next few days.
:
: I accept what your saying about too many sets and it has been in
: the back of my mind. But what used to zap me no longer does the
: job, after my work outs I always feel like I could do
: one(atleast) more exercise per muscle, so I usually do something
: unusual (for me) like an "up down" set for example.
:
: My goal is to gain strength and size and Ideally, I want my
: routine to push my muscles to the max, as opposed to doing a
: little extra. I would like to find out more about "over
: doing it" with the sets, I dont really understand it unless
: of course, you have been training for 2 weeks and decide to hit
: your Bi's with 10 sets....
:
: Do you have a link to the article?
:
: Thanks
:
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