Thickening chest

[TommyD]

Originally Posted by Gooseneck

Point well taken. I respect your knowledge and advise Tom. I tend to switch those groups around a lot, but I find I get great growth and recovery the way I am doing it. But everyone's composition and training levels are different. I agree with taxing the CNS, however it gets taxed the same amount at the end of the week regardless of which group you go with. The CNS is just that, the "Central" nervous system. It is affected the most by compound movements like you said, but the way I do it is also involving the same compound movements, thus taxing the same. The only real difference is recovery time, which I find I dont need 6-7 days to recover from tris or bis. I think the bigger concern here is overtraining rather than type of training.
To each his own though. Like I said earlier, I swap around quite often anyway to keep things interesting, so I'll be doing chest/tri, back/bis here sooner or later.

Very true, to each his own. I agree with you 100% there. :

You can basically have any routine you'd ever want (within reason) if you use periodization. You can jack up the volume of your workout for a few weeks, then take it easy for a week or two to allow your body to rebuild and recoop. I'm currently using a 2/1 split where I use high volume for 2 straight weeks (loading weeks), and then switch to a low volume week where I take it easy in the gym with less sets and reps (deloading week). I find that this minimizes any possibility of overtraining and maximizes muscle growth.

I'd recommend this for people who have been lifting for a while and are looking to break plateaus, maximize muscle growth, or are just looking for something new.

Weightlifting... man I love this pasttime.

[aberry33]

Thats some pretty good advice there Tom. Chest is the main muscle that I like to concentrate on and right now I work my chest on Mondays and Fridays. So overtraining refers more to the CNS rather than muscles? I've heard protein synthesis only takes 48-72 hours so i've always assumed it's ok to work out that specific muscle group again after that amount of time since your muscle has done all the growing it's going to do during that time. Right now I do the exact same routine on those two days for chest and that includes.....flat bench, cable crossovers, flat flies, wide grip dips, butterflies (if thats what they are called). Would you consider that too many excersises for a day? I have my pic that I just posted in the pic forum that has two pics of my chest, could you take a quick glance at it and maybe tell me what types of lifts I should be doing to get an overall better look in that section? I'm thinking about maybe doing flat bench on mondays and then incline instead on fridays to shake my routine up a little.

[Mr VW]

wuhenry explain these 21s more in depth that makes no sense