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Crazy/ possibility - all in one workout?

mjroche21 Posts: 58 Joined: 2003/08/27	2005/02/16, 10:19 AM hi i was just wondering working out 3 times a week is becoming a challenge (or i'm just really lazy), anyway is it possible to excerise your back, chest, calves, shoulders, biceps, triceps all in one workout? in the long run would you gain more muscle mass from spreading your workout through the week? ideally i'd like 2 work out twice a week, monday and thursday wud it be better if i worked my shoulder, biceps and triceps on one day the back chest and calves on another?
	2005/02/16, 11:11 AM you remind me of myself in this aspect... let me put it this way...if you train hard enough intensity wise than u can probably train every body part once every two weeks....I do a 5body split on a 14-16 days split...sometimes I even have as much as 20-22 days between workouts for aparticular bodypart...but if you train intensely enough ...you can get away with it esp for big bodyparts...yes you'll probably won't progress as fast but you can still progress...I think if you do 3-4 day split in 10 days...you'll make good gains But hey...you can even do 2 workouts a week that's full body and make good gains....you'll do 1 strength day and 1 speed day....powerlifting style using compound exercises about 1-2 sets per exercise, 12-15 in exercises in total....1-5 reps per set...although if your emphasis is mass you can try higher reps of 4-8 You'll Be using a Barbell strength day is going to be heavy and speed day is going to be 50% of 1rm done for 3 reps as fas as you can do it....I wrote the sample workout in powerlifting thread...search for it...if you can't find it...i'll rewrite it later.... generally speaking if you however like splitting your workouts into bodyparts...I wouldn't do it your way Large Body parts should be trained separately and less often you can get away and make great gains with 1 workout every 14 days for legs/back though you must lift heavy and push yourself.... arms and smaller muscles should be worked at least once a week... so maybe Back/Abs Chest Legs/Shoulders Arms..... With this workout I'd train Back/Legs once every two weeks...However, Arms should be trained once/twice a week and chest/shoulders also once a week...