Training just one body part

[JohnnyPro]

Okay, let's say I wanted to bring my legs up, if I trained ONLY legs for a few months, would they improve more than if I worked my entire body? I have a shoulder injury so I'm thinking this would be a good time to prioritize my legs. Can I expect better gains by only working my legs for a while?

 

[doug1]

i think so too. more energy for training that single bodypart combined with less stress on CNS, comined with recovery of a single bodypart as opposed to the whole body through the week

 

[PHIL HERNON]

Well

I say no........growth is systemic, not just per muscle.........your upper body grows from hormonal stimulus from training legs........and some lower body growth is attributed to training chest and back, big movers..........arms stimulate more specific muscle. You cant train legs every day so systemically you will get soft........smaller everywhere

 

[Soulstealer]

I say no........growth is systemic, not just per muscle.........your upper body grows from hormonal stimulus from training legs........and some lower body growth is attributed to training chest and back, big movers..........arms stimulate more specific muscle. You cant train legs every day so systemically you will get soft........smaller everywhere

Absolutely... but wouldnt you benefit from increasing the frequency and intensity of your leg training while slightly decreasing the frequency and intensity of your other muscle groups for a short period?

 

[PHIL HERNON]

Well......no

Absolutely... but wouldnt you benefit from increasing the frequency and intensity of your leg training while slightly decreasing the frequency and intensity of your other muscle groups for a short period?

No, not IF you are training properly up to your potential.

 

[Phidias]

I totally agree with Phil here... you'd get smaller everywhere... and even in legs IMO. You'd quickly overtrain them... optimal recovery time is one of the major key to growth.

 

[royal]

No, not IF you are training properly up to your potential.

What is your opinion on push ups for chest?

 

[Phidias]

What is your opinion on push ups for chest?

Picture yourself doing flat barbell bench pushing your bodyweight... odds are high it will be a very high reps workout, and long one till you reach failure.

Hence the question: what does a light weight/high reps training do for you?

 

[BG]

I disagree! There are more then enough people out there that train upper body and don't touch their legs and guess what.. they're big up top and small at the bottom.

Or how about the people that just hit arms almost daily. Big arms and nothing else. So, I definitely think you can build your legs while doing little to no training for your upper body.

 

[MAINEVENT]

You may get smaller everywhere but if you aren't able to train at all due to your shoulder injury then your better off hitting your legs twice a week....thus giving your whole body at least some stimulus.

Its certainly better than doing nothing at all, but I would agree with Phil that your legs probably wouldn't grow anymore than if you were hitting your whole body once per week.

 

[Quad-smack]

BG, you missed the point. Yes, we have all observed what you are talking about. What they are talking about is at the upper level of conditioning/development overall.
And yes, I agree with Phil.

 

[Alex A]

I have always felt that one should not stop or back off on training their strong body parts to bring up weaker ones...

Despite your injury, you can do your best to work around it....by finding exercises that dont aggravate it. IF you totally cant train shoulders at all.. Keep working hard on the rest..

 

[Soulstealer]

No, not IF you are training properly up to your potential.

So... how would you bring up a lagging bodypart? or are you saying that if you have a lagging bodypart its due to sometype of deficiency in your training?

 

[rAJJIN]

Okay, let's say I wanted to bring my legs up, if I trained ONLY legs for a few months, would they improve more than if I worked my entire body? I have a shoulder injury so I'm thinking this would be a good time to prioritize my legs. Can I expect better gains by only working my legs for a while?

There was a post on here Just recently by a guy max_rep or something.
Same thing, he had a shoulder injury so he started Squating more using a custom bar. Said his legs have for sure gotten stronger and Improved.

 

[rAJJIN]

http://www.professionalmuscle.com/f...-new-personal-best-loving-easy-squat-bar.html

 

[PHIL HERNON]

Systemic

An example would be that if you happen to break 1 leg or 1 arm, keep training the other arm or leg as it will allow for less atrophy in the broken limb. Again, I am saying to train, just understand that you will be smaller and fatter with everything being equal to before with full body training.

 

[PHIL HERNON]

Well

So... how would you bring up a lagging bodypart? or are you saying that if you have a lagging bodypart its due to sometype of deficiency in your training?

There is no way to bring up a truly lagging bodypart.....EVER....now here is the key to this symantic nonsense........NEVER be able to bring up a lagging bodypart to the size of the other bodyparts POTENTIAL...... Understand that?

 

[PHIL HERNON]

Yes

I disagree! There are more then enough people out there that train upper body and don't touch their legs and guess what.. they're big up top and small at the bottom.

Or how about the people that just hit arms almost daily. Big arms and nothing else. So, I definitely think you can build your legs while doing little to no training for your upper body.

Just as I explained earlier.........arms do nothing systemic, just specific.........unless yo udo HEAVY barbell curls and slightly swing them up. Now, do you think these guys legs are biggger than they would be if then never trained upperbody at all?

 

[SantiagoMuscle]

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