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Punxsutawney resident
There is a school of thought that says that frequency of training is of greater importance than sheer volume e.g. if you do 12 sets for muscle group X once per week you will see a greater benefit doing 6 sets twice per week.
I can see the logic in this in regards to being able to increase intensity e.g. (purely for an example) if you would normally do 5 sets of flat bench and then 5 sets of incline bench the incline sets will be at a lower weight/intensity/volume than if you were to do the 5 incline sets on another day having not pre-exhausted your bench prior.
While it sounds like some of you e.g. Silverback are doing something similar, has anyone found this to be effective for hypertrophy in direct comparison to a traditional split (each muscle group once per week, with higher volume).
Did you find that with reasonable intensity, the reduced volume was still sufficient stimulus to force growth? Bearing in mind that for smaller muscles this may equate to only 3-4 sets at a time.
I can see the logic in this in regards to being able to increase intensity e.g. (purely for an example) if you would normally do 5 sets of flat bench and then 5 sets of incline bench the incline sets will be at a lower weight/intensity/volume than if you were to do the 5 incline sets on another day having not pre-exhausted your bench prior.
While it sounds like some of you e.g. Silverback are doing something similar, has anyone found this to be effective for hypertrophy in direct comparison to a traditional split (each muscle group once per week, with higher volume).
Did you find that with reasonable intensity, the reduced volume was still sufficient stimulus to force growth? Bearing in mind that for smaller muscles this may equate to only 3-4 sets at a time.