Training advice

[vindiesel]

What's better? Training 4, 5 or 6 days a week? What do you think?

[panzer]

I usually go back and forth between 4-5 days a week, usually 5 but every now and then I like the extra rest period so I switch to 4 days for a week or two.

[vindiesel]

I haven't found the perfect routine yet.

I hesitate between this one

Day 1: Chest, Back, Abs
Day 2: Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps
Day 3: Quads, Hamstrings, Calves

or this one

Mon: Chest, Back, Abs
Tue: Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps
Wed: Off (cardio only)
Thu: Quads, Hamstrings calves
Fri: Chest, Back, Abs
Sat: Off (cardio only)
Sun: Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps

I could follow your example, panzer and zwtich from one to the other ....

[SoCo4Fun]

When I have time I like 5 days a week the best.

[mr.o]

you need rest to grow. no more than 5

[H Bomb]

i learned the hard way def no more than 5

[upondeez]

Originally Posted by H Bomb

i learned the hard way def no more than 5

Agreed! Anything more than 5 is too much and hard on the body! Each muscle should only be trained 1 time per week with at least a 7 days before the next time it is trained. Just my opinion, you need rest to grow!

[Skeletor]

Absolutely! 4-5 days is perfect. I used to train 5 but cut it back to 4 and got better results

[vindiesel]

Cardio on off days sounds nice. If it wasn't for my Achilles injury, I would follow your routine, Mike
I have scrapped all the cardio except the fact that I walk like 6 hours a day for work but not at a fast pace unfortunately (meaning that it's not cardio).

[IBBAdmin]

I was put on a 4 day routine,
day 1. Chest , Biceps, Abs 30min cardio
day 2. Back, Triceps, 30min cardio
day 3. Legs( quads , hams, calves ) 30min cardio
day 4. Shoulders abs
Cardio is done 7 days for now. until I get re-adjusted !~

[bigdan65]

i do cardio 6-7 days a week, i train 6 days, i have found for me i need to do some bodyparts by themselves to get them to grow

mon cardio AM quads/3 sets hams PM
tues cardio AM chest/tris PM
wed cardio AM off
thurs cardio AM back PM
fri cardio AM shlds/tris/bis PM
sat cardio hams all done same time
sun cardio bis/calves all done same time

this is ideal week for me sometimes sat and sun get put in one, if i know i am going to miss sat and/or sun i do hams on mon and add some sets to bis on fri and work calves in during the week

[vegasnv]

I train 3 on 2 off and it seems to work well for me.

[John Benz]

3-4 days a week. Never more than 4 for me. Easy to overtrain, especially all the young guys on cycle these days.

[Teamorbit]

I train 5 days a week. Do you guys think training 5 days straight and 2days off is too much or do you think I should throw a day off in between?

[2bigsyd]

3 days a week