Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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good routine?

Xphobicas
Xphobicas
Posts: 98
Joined: 2002/09/19
Canada
2002/10/10, 01:02 PM

On monday's and friday's i work out my upper body(pecs,shoulders,arms,upper back)and on wednesdays and
sundays i work out my lower body(legs,abs,and lower back).Is it alright to work a muscle twice a week in a split-style routine
if i have 96 hours of rest in between the sessions.My goal is to gain muscle mass.thanks for the advice
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/10/11, 02:28 AM
If your goal is big muscle mass I'll suggest you to only work each muscle group once a week (if you can work them twice, then you don't lift heavy or work "deep" enough, now if you still force to work them a second time, you'll just overtrain...).
Why not follow the exercise routine for mass building here at FT?

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