Hypertrophy training 7 days a week?

[AllOkJumpmaster]

You are becoming a real pain in the ass.

account creation date: today ?!

what is the point of joining a site just to troll?

 

[AlexDavis43]

From my experience and from what I’ve observed

The more advanced you are less becomes more

You should be able to connect and stimulate the muscle much more effectively and presumably with progressively higher loads which should in turn allow you to get away with less volume or this is what I’ve observed

BUT without a doubt the thing that matters most is doing what you enjoy and will stick to this will be far more “optimal” than any specific setup

"The more advanced you are less becomes more"

but when you add gear into the picture, more volume & frequency can still be more gains

are we talking natty or enhanced ?

 

[hawkmoon]

"The more advanced you are less becomes more"

but when you add gear into the picture, more volume & frequency can still be more gains

are we talking natty or enhanced ?

To a point.

One of the things Mentzer said in one of his book I read as a 16 year old still rings true to me today

As you get bigger and stronger you will outstrip your capacity to recover. A 20" arm doing 5 sets of curls is far more stress and recovery demand than a 15" arm.

You can still benefit from increased intensity but perhaps more moderated volume and progression.

Gear can help here, but your body still has a finite recovery limit.

 

[professionaldyel]

"The more advanced you are less becomes more"

but when you add gear into the picture, more volume & frequency can still be more gains

are we talking natty or enhanced ?

You didn't read the 3rd line of his post. Bodybuilding or lifting a weight with a specific muscle or whatever you want to call it is a skill that you get better at over time.

example

someone in their first year of lifting benching is hitting their pecs maybe 2 out of 10 reps and mainly using their shoulders and tris they need 4 sets to stimulate their chest

some in their 6th year is using just their pecs 8 out of 10 reps and they need 2 sets to stimulate their chest


Also we're on a bodybuilding forum that has literal sources as a banner bro, no one is talking about naturals unless specified.

 

[traininsane11]

"The more advanced you are less becomes more"

but when you add gear into the picture, more volume & frequency can still be more gains

are we talking natty or enhanced ?

It’s all contextual … more is better until it isn’t it’s finding where that is

Only ever enhanced not that I think there’s a major difference in approaches

 

[Flocci]

I train 7 days a week and recover perfectly fine

Me too but I look like a pathetic swimmer

I have to be be very careful with monitoring and adjusting training volume and intensity though, and split it up properly.

I also live and breath bodybuilding like a monk so I'm an outlier in that sense.

 

[TedDansen]

The way I'm training right now, it comes out to 6-7 days a week. My workouts are not tied to days of the week, and body parts are mostly independent of each other. So it depends on how things happen to fall. I train legs once every 4 days, chest every 4 days, back, shoulders and arms every 6-7 days, calves and abs every 3-4 days. As those workouts rotate through, I'll either combine them, do 2xday, or move them forward or backwards a day, depending on my schedule. If I wanted to arrange it to be in the gym every day, I absolutely could.

A lot of these workouts are SHORT. I'm in contest prep on very low calories, so I really start dragging after about 3 exercises. Splitting it into short workouts allows me to keep my performance up. Something like this could be an option for you, but I wouldn't recommend trying to do full 15+ working set workouts 7 days a week.