how much is too much

[B-rad]

I hit quads and calves on tuesday evening and hamstring and calves on saturday mournig seems to be working good for me allthough if I where not on cycle I think it might be to much.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Finished my first cycle about 5 weeks ago and while on, I had no problems training major compound lifts twice a week and preferred it.

Now that I'm off atm, once a week HARD feels right.

 

[jhondo]

Being sore and puking doesn't mean you trained effectively for growth. It means you beat the shit out of yourself.

Correct. Many people do a thing because that's what somebody else does, not because it works for them. If you want to know how your legs (or whatever) responds to 2 or even 3 times a week training, you have to try and see. Workouts don't have to be a 7 day week schedule either. Maybe legs twice in eight days is best for you. Who knows?

To elaborate on what st8grad mentione, there are entirely too many people at every gym in the world that weigh 160 pounds and their chest routine, for example, looks like this:

Bench press 5 sets
Incline becnh 5 sets
Decline bench 5 sets
Incline flyes 3 sets
Flat flyes 3 sets
Cable crossover 3 sets
Pec Dec 4 sets

Then they wonder why 1) they are so all the time, and 2)why they can't ever go up in weight.