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One exercise per day
« on: Today at 08:10:04 AM »
More for the home Gym trainers..

Have you ever thought of just doing one basic lift each day..alternating upper/lower body parts. maybe one push exercise or one pull exercise would be another option

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #1 on: Today at 08:15:27 AM »
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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #2 on: Today at 08:26:47 AM »
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Stan Efferding trained like this for a while when he was busy. One day he would do one pulling exercise and one pushing exercise (7 sets of each), the second day one biceps and triceps exercise, and the third day legs. Then repeat.

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #3 on: Today at 09:12:25 AM »
It's what I do. One exercise per muscle group.  Sunday/legs  Monday/chest  Tuesday/back  Wednesday/abs  Thursday/biceps
Friday/triceps  Saturday/forearms, calves.

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #4 on: Today at 09:21:30 AM »
You don't "have to" do several exercises for a muscle group, one exercise per day can work well for sure. For example one biomechanics guy claimed you can't really bias different parts of the triceps much so just pick one exercise. Or do dips and hit the pecs and front delts at the same time. According to Jones you only needed dips for full tricep development. And curl grip pulldowns for biceps. I don't know if I fully agree but you don't need all the different angles IMO. After stagnating loading-wise switch exercise, but not too soon or you'll never go anywhere much IMO. Once progress gets difficult any performance increase is more likely to result in more muscle. First weeks of progress are neural mostly. IMHO.

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #5 on: Today at 09:26:07 AM »
I do one basic "heavy" main exercise per workout.

Example:
Day 1 - Flat or low incline press
Day 2 - Some type of squat or deadlift
Day 3 - rest
Day 4 - Vertical press
Day 5 - Carries with weights or sandbag

Also I do a couple other things like calves, grip, and sometimes lats, biceps.

However, if my goal was bodybuilding as it is understood today I would do much more.

Here's an article about one lift a day.

https://archive.t-nation.com/workouts/the-one-lift-a-day-program/


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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #6 on: Today at 09:37:46 AM »
All you really need is pull-ups and dips.
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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #7 on: Today at 09:38:35 AM »
All you really need is pull-ups and dips.
Throw some squats in there.

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #8 on: Today at 09:42:25 AM »
Throw some squats in there.

And the preacher bench and seated calves and hammer curls and leg extensions and neck exercises and...

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #9 on: Today at 09:44:01 AM »
Try some yoga at home big man.

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #10 on: Today at 09:50:38 AM »
I do one basic "heavy" main exercise per workout.

Example:
Day 1 - Flat or low incline press
Day 2 - Some type of squat or deadlift
Day 3 - rest
Day 4 - Vertical press
Day 5 - Carries with weights or sandbag

Also I do a couple other things like calves, grip, and sometimes lats, biceps.

However, if my goal was bodybuilding as it is understood today I would do much more.

Here's an article about one lift a day.

https://archive.t-nation.com/workouts/the-one-lift-a-day-program/
Good stuff Iron

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Re: One exercise per day
« Reply #11 on: Today at 09:54:43 AM »
And the preacher bench and seated calves and hammer curls and leg extensions and neck exercises and...
:D Obviously we prefer weights but for those who prefer calisthenics squats, pushups and pullups are all you need. I did workouts like that before but got bored after a few weeks.