Re: resistance training everyday vs every other day

[Guest guest]

> Okay and the other folks into discussing exercise,

> here's a question!

>

> I've often read that resistance training is best done every other day

> to give the muscle and bone a chance to recover, but maybe this is

> just another common sense myth. I'd like to do high intensity low rep

> stuff everyday to optimize my bone density. Any ideas?

>

> Thanks,

> Mike

If you are working hard enough to cause muscle fibers to tear and

repair and grow, then yes, it really does takes time to repair and grow

them. (If you scratch your hand, how fast does it heal? Have you ever

noticed that you heal at different rates depending on your health, like

really fast when you feel wonderful and slower if you've been sick? but

I digress)

I have seen schemes where people take isolation to the extreme and do a

body part a day. biceps Monday, that sort of thing. Cruise made

millions out of that idea in the 8 Minutes books which more serious

lifters laugh at.

Me personally, I have great bone density as a senior woman and I only

work full-body really hard every 4-5 days. But I believe I heal more

slowly than I did when I was 30.

Connie

>

[Guest guest]

> I've often read that resistance training is best done every other day

> to give the muscle and bone a chance to recover, but maybe this is

> just another common sense myth. I'd like to do high intensity low rep

> stuff everyday to optimize my bone density. Any ideas?

I am no fitness guru, but everyone I have read on this suggests spacing exercise

sessions

by a lot. I do resistance training (few reps to muscle failure) twice a week.

Would three

times a week result in more muscle gain? Maybe, but from what I have read any

benefit

would be low and there is always the time an extra work out session takes that

you are

saving.

I would look into another activity for the non-strength training days, like

playing a sport,

bicycling for fun, sprinting, or something else entirely.

De Vany, who does consider himself to be a fitness guru, writes

" I aim for one upper and one lower body high intensity work out per week along

with one

easier, all round work out. Sometimes, I feel like more and may do up to 4

workouts of

varying intensity during a week. Often only one or two workouts & #64257;ll out

the week.

An average workout is 25 minutes. No workout is more than 40 minutes; most are

shorter. I often & #64257;nish my whole workout while other people are still

doing sets on a

machine or a body part. I never leave the gym tired, just relaxed and feeling

good. "

[Guest guest]

Mike,

 

No way.  In the beginning, you should be doing 3 days a week, using big, complex

lifts (don't waste your time on isolation exercises).   Get " Starting Strength " ,

2nd edition.  Do deadlifts, squats, and presses, chin-ups, high pulls or Power

Cleans.  After 6-12 months, tell us how you are doing and maybe we can THEN

think about a 4 day split routine (two upper body, two lower body).  Otherwise,

you are going to overtrain.

 

From: Anton <michaelantonparker@...>

Subject: resistance training everyday vs every other day

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 12:10 PM

Okay and the other folks into discussing exercise,

here's a question!

I've often read that resistance training is best done every other day

to give the muscle and bone a chance to recover, but maybe this is

just another common sense myth. I'd like to do high intensity low rep

stuff everyday to optimize my bone density. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike