how many times can i work out each body part per week

[morgan156]

i would like to know how many times a week can i workout my chest arms.. a so forth..with out buring them...

Depends on how many exercises, sets, and reps you plan on doing for each body part. Lifting style (to failure, etc) also plays a part. Do you have a current workout?

[cursor]

That will depend on exercise volume & intensity. What also matters is how you feed and rest your body after the workouts.

beat me by a hair, IronMan...

[morgan156]

Originally Posted by cursor

That will depend on exercise volume & intensity. What also matters is how you feed and rest your body after the workouts.

beat me by a hair, IronMan...

but not for a long time is 45 min.. to long for each body part i rest a lot
iam not working right now so i say i rest...but yes i do lift heavy i think.
i do as much weight as i can which is not a not i think at this point

[morgan156]

Originally Posted by IronMan

Depends on how many exercises, sets, and reps you plan on doing for each body part. Lifting style (to failure, etc) also plays a part. Do you have a current workout?

i do till failure or almost i work out each bodypart at least 45..min nonstop .. rest like a min..between sets but i do rest i am not working so i do rest after my workouts

[Merrida]

I don't quite follow your program, but,...

Can you describe your routine in terms of sets and reps?

The idea of doing 45 minutes of chest work just SOUNDS exhausting!

[cursor]

The rest that I'm referring to is not the pause between lifing sets, but rather the number of days that you rest between days of lifting.

[FortIron]

depends on the factors already listed such as:

Presented fatigue, frequency of your stimuli and cycling of your intensity/volume.

Often when i train with a higher volume 8-12reps (is alot for me) i'll do what is called feeder work the next day. Feeder work is a method used by the Soviet and Bulgairan olympic teams back iin their dominace and is still being used today as a way of restoration. (recovering) They would basicly work the same lifts or muscle groups the following day or they would do some form of gpp/spp work. Gpp/spp is more total body conditioning then anything. This helps muscles to recover and helps stabilize your CNS.


Kc

As near as I can figure from your description, morgan156, I would only work out each body part once per week.

[Todd]

i would like to know how many times a week can i workout my chest arms.. a so forth..with out buring them...

Simple -- You'll be able to/should workout more often if you are pussy-footing around in the gym and not working your muscles maximally....if you are applying 100% intensity in the gym each time, working out each body part once per week is all that you need!

[LiftHarder]

ten or eleven

[abarlament]

Powerlifters and olympic lifters (strength people) would laugh if you said you only have to lift one time a week. If you aren't going to failure (taxing your CNS), you can work out and lift 3-5 days a week.

[ilyas]

I read somewhere, large muscles need more time to recover.

legs,back-once a week
chest,shoulders-twice a week
arms-3 times a week
abs-4 times a week

I just wrote this down off the top of my head, it's just an example, everyone is different.

You should always work out until failure.

[Todd]

Posted By: Abarlament

Powerlifters and olympic lifters (strength people) would laugh if you said you only have to lift one time a week. If you aren't going to failure (taxing your CNS), you can work out and lift 3-5 days a week.

I think he meant how many times per week FOR EACH BODY PART can/should you lift...not how many times a week should you lift.

[abarlament]

Yea I knew thats what he meant. I was letting him know that olympic lifters do some variation of the snatch and clean and jerk up to 5 times a week. The Westside powerlifting method, very popular, has bench work twice a week and squat work twice a week, plus GPP (pulling a sled, sledgehammer stuff, chopping wood) a few times a week.