How many times to work muscle group per week?

[speakeasy]

Is there a limit to how much space you need in between working a particular set of muscles?

 

[mrRuckus]

The least time between reasonably for most people is probably about 4 days (in TIME).

It's very common to see a Mon1-Wed-Fri-Mon2 where Mon1 and Fri are the same muscle groups and the same with Wed and Mon2. So you have about 96 hours since your last workout of the same muscle groups assuming you work out at the same time of day.

 

[insidious]

I think it depends entirely on where you are in your program.

When I started out about 2 yrs ago, I was pretty much lifting 50-60 lbs for all my lifts. There are some real concrete reasons I started so low. I won't go into those now, but check my post history, you'll see.

Bottom line is, if you are way below your potential threshold, I think it's fine to go frequent. I've finally reached the point where I am squatting, deadlifting almost 1.5x my bodyweight, and my benching is past by bodyweight...I can't lift as often as I used to. I keep wittling away my days because I seriously risk overtraining.

Listen to your body. My legs talk to me the most If I'm overreaching, they will tell me. At the beginning, work out every day if you can take it. Fine tune your schedule.

It would help if you told us your basics: goals, bodyweight, lifting weights.

 

[Honda-821]

depends on how much volume your are doing in the work out.
you could do a full body work out and every other day you work your whole body
or you could do a split and work it once a week.
we need more info

 

[speakeasy]

It would help if you told us your basics: goals, bodyweight, lifting weights.

My goals are to put on bulk. Not to become huge so much, but to have a nice beach body physique that women notice.

 

[speakeasy]

depends on how much volume your are doing in the work out.
you could do a full body work out and every other day you work your whole body
or you could do a split and work it once a week.
we need more info

I am starting the plan in the getting started thread in this forum, plan B.

 

[Bonhomme]

Current thought is no more than once per week per body part if you're using very heavy weights.

Working out before the muscles fully recover leads to muscle breakdown.

I didn't believe it at first, but made the change and blasted through a plateau that I'd been hung on for years.