MANY FACTORS INVOLVED.........BIG STUDY DONE IN AUSTRALIA THAT MY GOOD FRIEND AND BOARD MEMBER PARTICIPATED IN.....WHOLE NINE YARDS......MUSCLE BIOPSIES AND SUCH.....GOT SOME DEFINITIVE ANSWERS. I USE THE RESULTS ON MY CLIENTS AND IT SEEMS TO WORK QUITE WELL.
It's not the muscles that take a long time to recover it's the central nervous system.
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TRAIN BICEPS FOR 10 SETS.......DAY 1 SAY......NEXT DAY TRAIN BICEPS AGAIN.........WILL YOU BE AS STRONG? WOULD YOU BE STRONG ENOUGH TO SQUAT OR WOULD YOUR CNS BE TOO TAXED FROM THE BICEP CURLS FROM THE DAY BEFORE?
tkav a quick question, why do you work chest shoulders back then bis and tris in stead of chest shoulder tri (push) followed by back and bis (pull)? IM not trying to be a dick or anything, im just curious..
ok so if the cns being taxed is an issue i have another question
e.g day1 you do 9 sets, 3 working sets per body part-chest,back,shoulders.
you will be doing the same number of sets as you would if you just done 1 session spent on chest for 9 sets. in fact you will do more WORKING HEAVY sets (providing you only do 1-2 all out sets per exercise).
so..........after 1 day of training, 9 sets, compound exercises,no drugs (i know it will differ slightly each individual) how long will it take you cns to recover?
nah thats a good question. well heres my theory, it could be all wrong but besides a few stumbling blocks its been working great, if it was a simple push pull where do legs come in? for me to train each muscle 2 times a week and recover properly this seems to be the best split for me. it goes 2 days on, one off, 2 on , 2 off. now all exercises are done one working set to failure. the volume is low enough so that with proper nutrition i can recover and retrain a few days leter. for my body type i need 3 days of rest a week or i dont have enough time to recover and grow. if your curious as to the full details of what i do feel free to pm me.