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Originally Posted by ONE SMART COOKIE  Cookie, how many times a week do you sugest they train lets say chest?
I would suggest 2-3 times
Do they train the whole body in one workout? If so how many times a week per body part for the newbie?
This ties in with the above reply....wholebody workouts 2-3 times per week are ample for most people for the first couple years training, some even prefer them period. |
Crikey! I'm a relative newbie, although I know my stuff from trying to workout when I was too young when I was at school.
I train each bodypart once every 5 or so days. Apart from anything else I wouldn't be fully recovered.
I've also tried training my whole body and it just takes too long frankly. Plus I don't think my body would grow properly if the whole of it was destroyed in one session.
I did chest back arms shoulders and traps thursday:
Chest:
A warm up set of smith benches, then 2 sets of 8
2 sets of 8 chest press machine
2 sets of 8 cable crossovers
Back:
2 sets lat pulldown wide bar 10 reps
2 sets seated row narrow grip
Shoulders:
2 sets 10 one arm cable pulls
3 sets 10 rear delt dumbell lifts lying face down on bench
Arms:
2 sets of 10 cable curls
2 sets of 8 tricep pulldowns
The bis and tris and front delts have taken a beating from other exercises, so I was careful not to overtrain them.
Traps:
3 sets of shrugs
I then did Legs, lower back and abs on Sunday:
Legs:
3 sets of 8 smith squats
3 sets of 8 leg press
3 sets of 10 deadlift
3 sets of 10 calf raises
Abs:
3 sets of 20 leg raises
3 sets of 10 dumbell side laterals (if that makes sense)
Didn't do lower back as I tweaked it on my last set of deadlifts, but would have done one of several machines or bench exercises for that.
I'm looking at adding some cardio in at some point, not sure whether to or not tbh.
I do go at it intensely, to failure, but if you think I'm training too infrequently, please let me know. I will probably go tomorrow (6 days break) and do upper body again.