4 or 5?

[cpluvcb]

hey guys
 i wanted to know if there was a reall difference between training four or five days a week?? is there any pros and cons to one or the other??

thx

[loler]

you train 4 days a week and if you keep eating well you will have enough time to recover
you train 5 days a week and no matter how you eat you will not recover enough unless youre juicing

[cpluvcb]

 I see whatcha saying. but in terms about do the workload. is it better to have it one mucle group per day??

[loler]

You can group back/tris, chest/bis, delts/traps, quads/hams etc

[buffbong]

five days is fine as long as you can recover from it just have to get enouigh sleep and food. i did it for years while being in the army so dont listen to loler. its good sometimes to be able to do everything on its own days but i like having wensday and weekands off for rest.

[brianX]

I make my best gains training 5 or 6 days a week. Each bodypart gets trained 2-3 times weekly.

[haider]

For naturals, frequent and periodized training(even as simple as linear periodization, for ex. HST) probably works best in most cases. Ofcourse, diet matters mroe than your how your workout regimen is setup.

[Cavalier22]

what you mean freqruent and periodized?

[triple_pickle]

i train 4 days per week, each bodypart once per week, and sometimes think even that is too much (i am a natural).  if you hit a muscle group properly, it should be sore for 3-4 days.

[NoCalBbEr]

im with you, 4 days per week. i go so hard that on the weekend that i sometimes cant  walk or just feel like weak as hell.

[Hedgehog]

For maximum hypertrophy, Bengt Saltin recommends training two workouts every other day instead of one workout every day.

Meaning, you should never have two days in a row where you're training for muscle hypertrophy, ideally.

It usually works out for me (on a two week schedule) that I train once a day Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun, Tue, Thu, Sat, repeat.

Perhaps two of these days I am able to get a morning workout in.

Whatever.

YIP
Zack

[Cavalier22]

when you say two workouts, ytou mean like chest/back in one workout?

[Flex 215]

A good compromise to this is to use a four day split for your bodyparts, but use a 2 on, 1 off schedule. So you hit every bodypart once every 6 days, and do nine workouts every 2 weeks. So actually you're doing 4.5 workouts per week, a good frequency right inbetween the 4 or 5 that you are trying to chose from.