I've been enjoying sticking to these full body workouts recently. Even better when consistent enough to hit them every other day. This allows for three, possibly four opportunities each week to stimulate every single muscle, therefore giving the greatest scope for a novice/beginner to make rapid progress.
This split also provides the opportunity to drastically improve skill at a select few movements by repeating them so frequently, transferring to strength gains from technique improvements alone. With more load always being the overall goal, once form is set constant.
The key is in finding the correct volume- number of sets performed- within each session. In order to provide enough stimulation to trigger muscle growth, but not so much that you cannot recover to do it all over again in two days. One brutally hard set for each muscle, taken to complete failure, should be enough to see great responses in an untrained individual.
Once recovery and endurance improve this can be taken up to two to three sets per muscle group per workout, resulting in around 6-9 per week, which is right on target for a high intensity training program.
Many of my personal training clients enjoy training twice a week, so again full body training is what I advocate and apply to those individuals. If you were to do an individual body part split at twice a week frequency, you would simply get nothing done.
My aim is to stick to practice and perfect my full body training plans this winter, and rinse those for as much basic global progress I can get across my whole physique for as much of 2022 as possible.
Currently waking around 182lbs and fairly lean at that. I'd like to push up to 230lbs over the next bulking phase and cut back down to a similarly lean 190lbs. Lets see how quickly we can make that happen.
HB
