![]() Training IntensityĪnother factor is training intensity. Older trainers find it more difficult on the joints and tendons to subject them to twice weekly workouts for the same muscles. The tendons and muscles recover much faster at a young age so training each muscle group twice a week would be more conducive to these bodybuilders compared to those in the middle age category. Younger bodybuilders tend to recuperate much faster than older trainers. The “more is better” approach is back with a vengeance! WHICH TRAINING PHILOSOPHY IS BEST?Īfter the pendulum has swung back and forth so many times in regards to Training Duration and Frequency, the question looms: which training philosophy is the best? Much of it depends on many factors including what is your objective for training (fitness, muscle mass, definition) and your individual make-up (age, recovery ability, genetic and metabolic attributes). Slow to respond muscle groups are often hit three times a week in order to bring them up to par. Phrases like “killing it”, “never give up” and “don’t quit” are hash tagged in social media posts as aspiring athletes brag how committed they are to training by showing up at the gym every day, sometimes twice in the same day. It’s not uncommon today to see people training every day, often seven days in a row. ![]() Perhaps due to the growing influence of social media, in which people like to post what they are doing on a daily basis, training frequency has increased. Today, bodybuilders and other aspiring physique athletes have reverted back somewhat to the training programs of the 1970’s. Instead of splitting up the body into separate muscle groups and training every day as the bodybuilders in Gold’s Gym did, Jones had his students only performing minimal sets for each muscle group as opposed to the high volume (20-30 sets) being practiced by most of the bodybuilding world at the time. Jones advocated brief, intense workouts with a short duration period of only 30 minutes each. ![]() THE NAUTILUS SYSTEMĪrnold’s Schwarzenegger’s workout routine was in stark contrast to the preaching of Nautilus founder Arthur Jones. As a result, the average aspiring bodybuilder was often frustrated in their lack of muscular gains as compared to the Bodybuilding Gods that they admired in the pages of the muscle magazines each month. Second, he was using performance enhancing drugs (which were legal at the time with a doctor’s prescription) during his contest preparation. First of all, he was extremely genetically gifted for building muscle. Of course, Arnold and many of his contemporaries training at the Gold’s Gym in Venice, California had some advantages that your average weight trainer did not share. A typical workout split would be Monday and Thursday, chest and back, Tuesday and Friday, legs, and Wednesday and Saturday, shoulders and arms. Everyone trained six days a week, training each muscle group at least twice a week. Because Arnold was the undisputed King of Bodybuilding during those days, everyone who lifted weights and wanted to be a bodybuilder would follow the same workouts.
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