Quote (rspaid @ Jan 14 2015 03:53pm)
Ok, thanks, but I have other issues. My buddy and I are currently working one body part per week. It takes us well over 1 hour to complete just 1 exercise. I don't know how in the hell we could do 2 exercises a day. I don't have 2-3 hours to lift everyday. So, my questions are:
1. Could we just do 1 body part per day as follows: Monday = chest, Tuesday = biceps, Wednesday = shoulders, Thursday = back, Friday = triceps, Saturday = off, Sunday = off (we would do cardio & abs after - no legs atm)
2. How long does your workout plan last for one person? How about two people? How long should we lift per day?
We started this workout on Monday and let me tell ya, it's crazy good, but very demanding. Don't get me wrong, love it and I KNOW it'll work. BUT, it takes sooooo long. Noway we have time to do chest and say biceps in one day. I also can understand if the plan is for one person lifting by themselves as that would take much less time. We are doing our best to follow the instructions, while working in two people. Amazing workout though.
Thanks again for your feedback.
For hypertrophy, training ONE muscle group per week is counter-intuitive. The purpose of hypertrophy is to force the muscles to grow from tremendous amounts of volume. As a result, 1x per week training is simply not enough. However, 1 muscle group per week is great for powerlifting and pure strength training.
HOWEVER, if you insist on hypertrophy with one muscle group per week, it can still be done. Take the regular hypertrophy plan, and train each muscle group 1x per week. However, try to add at least 1 additional exercise per day to really get that muscle group to break down. Example, on chest day, add something like laying dumbbell pullovers.
Give it a shot and see how it goes in approximately 6 weeks.