Pros & Cons of Doing Full-Body Workouts on Consecutive Days'

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[danielsommerville]

Full body’s 5 days a week.🔥🔥🔥
But doing more than 1 exercise with higher intensity compound lift for each specific Day one focus on Chest, day 2 Back, day 3 Legs & Shoulders repeat.

Ex. Day 1.
Bench press, bent over DB row, squats, cable flys, triceps ext.

Day 2: 20-30 Pull-ups to start the workout, DB incline chest press, weighted lunges, Barbel row.
Bb Curls biceps to shoulder press

Day 3: Bulgarian split Squats, Military shoulder press, straight leg deadlifts, Lateral shoulder raises, triceps.

Repeat 3-5x per week

[cindyd]

Thanks for the Clarification because this is what I’ve been doing three days in a row

[luigisantos]

Sal's shirts are always on point 👌

[daayemshehzad]

My university is starting October and I'm trying to design a routine that has me in the gym for no more than 45 mins 5/6 times per week. Thinking of doing something like full-body everyday with one major compound exercise everyday and the rest are less intense exercises for the rest of the body.

[Daniel-doqz]

Love that Freddie D. shirt Sal is wearing. He's killing it with his T-shirt game...Sal you will tell me where you get the shirts or I'm gonna hold my breath till I turn blue

[the_lastguy]

If doing a full body routine everyday, I would suggest 1 compound body part on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Accessories/ isolation movements on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

For instance:

Monday: Bench, Squat, Deadlift, BB Row, Overhead Press.
Tuesday: Fly, Leg extension, leg curl, Lat Pull Over, Rear and side dealt.
Wednesday: Incline Bench, Front Squat, Romanian Deadlift, Pull Up, Dumbbell Press.
Thursday: Fly, Leg extension, leg curl, Lat Pull Over, Rear and side dealt.
Friday: Chest Press, Leg Press, Hip Thrust, Dumbbell Row, Machine Shoulder Press.
Saturday: Fly, Leg extension, leg curl, Lat Pull Over, Rear and side dealt.
Sunday: Fly, Leg extension, leg curl, Lat Pull Over, Rear and side dealt.

This way, you get compound strength and power with isolation. 2 sets on each exercise of the day. Simple. Effective. Quick. Gives time for rest.

[sephblack]

I do full body, around 10-15 exercises per day depending, typically one working set per exercise, never done to failure, but sets are done with more intense focus than I usually do when doing multiple sets of one exercise. I alternate intensity - if I do bench in strength based rep ranges one day, I'll do it in hypertrophy/endurance ranges the next, for instance. Either way, I recover way better than I ever did on things like 531, PPL, Upper Lower etc, and my lifts go up way faster. I'm in the intermediate range though, not sure how advanced lifters might respond.

[jvm-tv]

This is what Dan John calls Easy Strength. Very effective and interesting way of training.

[Godstemplefitness]

Team 3D alpha…”nucleus overload”..gets down to the science of frequency and building muscles

[oldsingingstudentdougbillf]

Yesterday I began a phase of 6 weeks, 5 days a week, full body workout. I’ve done it before but many years ago. My 2 days off usually are not back to back…workout Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday is rest, workout Thursday and Friday with a light upper body bonus workout on Saturday. Sunday is a rest day. About 1/3 of the time I take the weekend off if we have other plans meaning workouts Monday to Friday inclusive. Four times a week I do 20 minutes of interval running about 3 hours following my gym workout. I love it but like I indicated, with the addition of full-body I now have 3 different programs and will change em up every 6 to 8 weeks. With exception to the bonus upper body workout I really never do a low intensity workout. But I’m definitely not working to failure either. Usually I have a 1 or 2 RIR. My workouts are 45-70 minutes. I try to work hard everyday at the gym.

[reignmkr]

Sal's T-shirt. That's what's up!

[jeanpauljeanpaul]

Your nutrition and sleep have to be on point.

[diegosantiago]

I really appreciate this information ! I was worried because I train nearly everyday and since I am self taught with the variety of my knowledge on exercise I find I'm not great with doing only specific areas each day. And I'm working through a Injured psaos situation so the leg day idea is rehab exercises since I can't train that intense. Very frustrating 😕

[donutfitness]

I’ve actually tried it with higher effort but crazy low volume ie one single set to failure.

Although, I’m not sure if you are referring to intensity in the true sense (percent of 1RM) or just meaning effort in relation to failure training.

I do keep true intensity (% of 1RM) lower but effort very high with low volume.

[zach]

AMRAP for 2 sets (maybe 3 sets) five days a week on all the major compounds (deadlift just once/week). Start at 60% and gradually increase load week to week. Never tried it, but im going to give it a try for 4-6 weeks for an experimental run. Seems like it'd be good autoregulation.

[chrisallen]

What about just compound lifts 3 days a week.. and the alternative days isolation exercises. ..

M w f... compound
T t s... isolation

[faithway]

full body on consecutive days but with one compound lift at high intensity on each day. the rest at low intensity.

[fagatuamasaga]

Your body always adapts, working out full body is good..as long as u stretch after and ur eating ur right calories n not starving urself ur body will be fine..ur body is like a car that needs fuel(food) and tune ups and

[bradenbagby]

I personally love dumbells I do full body everyday except Sunday, Mon, Wen, Fri is my normal full workout and Tue, Thur, Sat I do all the same exercises but cut the sets down to half and only do 25% of my normal reps

[sabyasachighosh]

I like hitting every/most body parts when I go to the gym. Is it ok to break up 3 sets of each exercise into two sets on day 1, and 1 set on day 2, and just keep doing this ad infinitum?