Full Body strength training 3x per week vs "Traditional" split body workouts 5x per week?
Both have their research and followers, but where do you stand?
One commenter on this Facebook Post, JR Smith, brings some cool history:
"It was Joe Weider that is credited with introducing the split. The old time bodybuilders such as John Grimmick, Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, Zabo, and many others always trained the whole body 3 days per week. Weider felt that focusing on individual groups in a split would bring up lagging body parts as well as induce greater hypertrophy and generate greater energy for those muscle groups while training. Joe a so believed less time in the gym would lead to greater hypertrophy since many of the old timers would spend 2-3 hours per training session. It's interesting to note that Joe got a lot of his training principles from Arnold and yet Arnold, who was employed by Joe, trained on average of 2 hours per session twice per day. Arnold was highly supportive of volume training while Mike Mentzer, a disciple of Arthur Jones the inventor of Nautilus equipment, that believed in the one set to failure. Arthur ' s principles have never been scientifically validated."
Very interesting stuff, proof will be in the hard work.
Talk soon,
Kris
Kris@MoultonKettlebellClub.com
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