Originally Posted by biggerjohnson
Most people that lift weights work each muscle group once/week. Say chest is on a monday, you wont work chest again til the following monday.
biggerjohnson,
I work out, too. When I was younger, it as more bodybuilding or development focused. Now it is more weight control and performance oriented.
A growth focused weight training program, like the schedule you posted (the schedule I used when I was younger was 3 on, 1 off, actually) would be more valuable than the every other day program I use now. The program I use, is again, performance oriented. That said, I have added 15lbs a month to my bench press since I started training again.
My size hasn’t changed, other than getting leaner, since that isn’t the focus of the program. I thought about posting this before to see if it had any value to PE, but I wasn’t sure of the value, so I didn’t.
But now that you have interjected a weight training comparison, there it is for what it’s worth.
I know PE and weight training aren’t completely interchangeable, but training with large volume and lots of rest produces bodybuilding size gains. Whereas, my current program is pretty small volume, but it is every other day and has produced strength and performance gains.
I am not exactly sure how that applies to PE since, I know we are not after strengthening in PE. But it does show that training 3 or 4 times a week (I may actually do equal or less sets in a week than some weight trainers do in a day) doesn’t cause over training. But if I train everyday (which I did a few times, being over enthusiastic with the results) the numbers not only stagnate, but they fall.
I was having trouble not PE’ing 5 times a week, as the Newbie routines suggests, but considering what I observed in the above, along with the posts on negative PI’s and IPR’s thoughts about 1 on, 2 off, it has been a bit easier to take the off days when necessary. Still, I would like to normalize my routine were I can avoid taking unscheduled off days, since I think comparing PE to bone lengthening is probably more accurate than comparing to PE. Which, I think, might mean being more consistent than sporadic.
For what ever it is worth (which may not be much), there it is. But it may make someone think of something in a new way that is helpful to us all, so again, there it is.