need help on workout question(recovery)

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Permalink Reply by Ben Whitney on April 17, 2010 at 2:22pm

I think it just depends on what your body is used to (or what you get it used to). My normal training split is 6 days on/ 1 day off then repeat. Day 1 is Chest/Back, day 2 is Legs and day 3 is Shoulders/Arms (secondary muscle groups thrown in on those days). So I go day 1,2,3 then repeat 1,2,3 then a day off. So to make a long story short my triceps and biceps will get hit on consecutive days quite often and it does not seem to affect my progress negatively at all.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bader on April 20, 2010 at 2:07pm

thats great. I was always worried about recovery time doing that. Ive been doing the same 1, 2, 3 off then break for a couple days, then 1, 2, 3. Ill definitely start trying it consecutively.

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Permalink Reply by _ on April 20, 2010 at 3:44pm

I've always found it more effective being able to recover between chest and tris (if you do them on different days) but that is for me. See what your body responds to.

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