Gym 7 days a week, maximize gains??

HB10bitch · 2016-02-17T21:04:12+00:00

Recovery is real, man.

reserved1012 · 2016-02-17T20:43:59+00:00

The thing is, you will reach a point where your work/reward ratio sucks. You could spend 5 hours a day in the gym if you wanted, but you sure as hell aren't going to look 5 times better than the guy who spends one hour a day in the gym. The guy who spends one hour a day in the gym really won't look much better than the guy who spends one hour in the gym every other day.

If you have that kind of free time, put it towards cooking healthier meals or reading up on nutrition/supplements/whatever. This would be a more effective use of your time IMO.

SteeleLion · 2016-02-18T02:07:32+00:00

Sure, with steroids.

Your body can only handle so much. Its fine at the start when you're lifting light but when you start throwing around some serious weight a extreme and vigorous work out is essentially like a game of hard hitting football.

You're body needs to recover. It needs rest and sustenance.

If you just had to go every day you could do something like this

Monday - Chest - Compound and heavy Tuesday - Back - Compound and heavy Wednesday - Legs - Compound and heavy Thursday - Chest and Tri's Auxiliary Hypertrophy Friday - Back and Bi's - Auxiliary Hypertrophy Saturday - Legs - Auxiliary Hypertrophy Sunday - Rest or if you really can't help yourself just re do the day you felt was weakest during the weak.

That kind of volume is heavy duty. Not to say you can't do it, but your diet and sleep would have to be really dialed in, it would become your life. Or you know.. roids.

MeatCurtainRod · 2016-02-17T20:49:54+00:00

No, SL5x5 absolutely will NOT work if you want to workout 7 days a week. The whole point of full body exercises is so that you CAN work out all your muscle groups in one day, while letting your body recover using off days.

You can either change your workout routine to something other than SL5x5 and work at isolated muscle groups that span 7 days, or stick with SL5x5 and work the 3 or 4 days with complete rest days.

BTW, to maximize gains, you probably will be better off using isolated muscle group workouts. SL5x5 focuses on strength and your core, not bulking.

reserved1012 · 2016-02-18T01:40:15+00:00

Yes. But you cant do SL5x5 more than 3 times a week (4 if you really push it)

Look into Push/Pull/Legs. Its an easily approachable philosophy that was a game changer for me. You could do 7 days a week but its meant for 6. I've done 7. Someone on here showed me the light.

I started with Coolcicada's P/P/L and then slowly over time made my own adaptations

The ELI5 is That your push muscles are tired after day 1, but your pull muscles arent for day 2, then your legs are 3, then your push should be back up by day 4 (some rest in between and go PPLRPPLR).

Howlgram · 2016-02-17T21:21:31+00:00

I think that the only kind of routine that you can spread over that many days is some sort of (probably highly ineffective in terms of time) PPL Hypertrophy training with a bunch of isolation exercises. I'm sure that in order to train strength you need rest days.

maxofreddit · 2016-02-17T22:39:04+00:00

How old are you? If you're young (27-ish or less) there might be some volume stuff you can get away with due to high natural testosterone...if you're 30+ it's a little more tricky.

Either way, for big gains, recovery/sleep is HUGE.

RedPillMeditations · 2016-02-18T00:41:15+00:00

When you lift, you're building Fitness and Fatigue. Once your fatigue surpasses your fitness, your performance will drop. You need to allow fatigue to die down some, so you can continue to increase your fitness (get stronger, bigger, etc).

winstrol · 2016-02-18T02:01:17+00:00

Get on dat dere cell tech bruh.

Gawernator · 2016-02-18T02:26:15+00:00

5 times a week is good, 1 hour workouts or so. those recovery days will help you a lot.

Letsbeserioushere · 2016-02-18T23:11:26+00:00

You don't get strong from lifting weights, you get strong by recovering from lifting heavy weights.

awkwardtouching · 2016-02-18T01:46:23+00:00

You bench 280 already bro - you're doing this to get laid and keep your body healthy to build your empire. Maybe spend your free time those things, rather than putting more into the fitness.

Coolbeans024ptf · 2016-02-18T02:29:05+00:00

As you build larger muscles you need more repair time. Less is often more.

abdada · 2016-02-17T20:56:17+00:00

You get stronger during recovery than during working out.

No recovery means fewer strength gains.

If I work out once every 5 days, I get stronger and leaner and bulkier than if I work out 4x a week.

But my workout once every 5 days is grueling -- heart racing, muscles to failure.

Title	Gym 7 days a week, maximize gains??
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Date	February 17, 2016 8:27 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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