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2002/10/16, 04:34 PM
If I lift 5 days a week and alternate lower body then upperbody and so on, is that okay or should I do day 1 legs, day 2 bi/tri, day 3 shoulders, and so forth like that?
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Never try to be better than anyone else, just try to be better than yourself!
Marcy Ann
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2002/10/16, 04:41 PM
For building muscle you would be better to use your second thought to allow adequate recovery time for the muscles. By training 5 days and alternating upper & lower, you're not giving the muscles enough time to recover and grow.
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2002/10/16, 04:58 PM
I began lifting seriously Jun 24. This is what I started with:
reps 12/10/8
Chest/Tri/Should
Back/Bi
Legs
Switched it on Aug 25
20/15/12/8
same workout.
I have had fantastic results so far.
If you want to do the circuit training I would only do it 4 days a week. I am not sure what the results would be like. With the three day split like above try to increase the weight each week. With the circuit training I am not sure if you can increase it every time you lift.
Why? Well I was really sore every week when I first started, now it's not so bad. I did chest on Tue and just thinking about doing it again on Thurs. NO. I also know that you should let your muscles recover before you work them out again.
Anyone have any further direction for circuit training?
:) Melissa
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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