Lifting 5 times a week?

GayLubeOil · 2016-10-21T10:55:01+00:00

You can lift 7 times a week if you want. The thing to understand is that your body can only take so much stress depending on your training experience sleep nutrition and cough cough supplements. You can probably lift heavy 3x a week, Moderate to light 2-3 times and the rest of the time can be spent doing corrective exercise, metcon and practicing complex exercises at a reduced intensity.

On some of my off days I practice specialized girl butt exercises, because I make a lot of my money training women.

Officer_Dick_Johnson · 2016-10-21T10:44:12+00:00

Yes. Good idea.

ColmM36 · 2016-10-21T13:26:50+00:00

If you have the time then do it. GZCL method is good. You won't explode from overtraining by working out 5 days a week. I work out 6 days a week, have done so for over a year, and seen nothing but positive results. Providing you have sleep, nutrition and other recover factors well controlled

TheStumblingWolf · 2016-10-21T13:35:40+00:00

I've been talking with an acquaintance about his routine. He goes every day but switches things up. If he does hard lifts one day, he'll do cardio the next. Seems to be working for him.

SickeningPiss · 2016-10-21T14:56:17+00:00

Fasted cardio in the morning. This is the key aswell. Even if you're lifting heavy and trying to bulk dont neglect cardio as a natty. You will be fat as fuck and have a hard time getting lean if you do, this was me a couple years ago. Train your core with planks, leg raises and weight abs crunches. Do this once or twice a week. Otherwise your key lifts will suffer and you will get back pain. Fasted cardio 2-4 times a week . Follow advice given by other posters.

deepthr0at · 2016-10-21T16:35:29+00:00

Body needs time to recover, you can lift every day if your on drugs or just genetically gifted, but if your natty 3-4 times a week of lifting heavy is optimal.

Just use the other days for light mobility/cardio if you need to scratch that itch of getting to the gym.

desno · 2016-10-21T17:16:24+00:00

up to you if you want to carry on starting strength (Im assuming this is what you're doing) or you want to do PPL. I'd personally do PPL as so:

PPLPP mon to fri

And when you start to stall, go back to SS or 5x5.

But you could still get a lot of juice out of SS with those numbers. Training 5x a week is awesome though. I did it a month or two in the run up to exams. Woke up, gym, revise eat sleep repeat. Got me out of bed 7am and forced me to sleep before midnight.

MyTrapsCauterize · 2016-10-21T22:24:11+00:00

My joints could absolutely not handle 5x a week. If you start lifting heavy, I suspect yours won't either. If you're a natural lifter an upper/lower split 4 days a week will server you much better. If you have to go a 5th day, do some cardio.

TheRedStoic · 2016-10-21T11:54:24+00:00

Listen to u/GayLubeOil. Listen. Listen to him

Title	Lifting 5 times a week?
Author	stay_anon_stay_safe
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Date	October 21, 2016 10:23 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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