Question about exercise selection on Matt Reynolds DFHT

[BiggT]

Neo, that's a great looking split......and has nowhere near the fluff and excess crap I was expecting it to have, lol, it is organized around big lifts and improving them, and it is no wonder you did well on it......personally, I like it, again, I am a big believer that any routine is just a snap-shot in time so to speak, and what is optimal during one point, won't be during another......but on paper, I like that a lot.

At some point, more frequency serves the big lifts well, at other points, less frequency and peaking them is good.....to be honest, as long as the bench, push press, squats, and deadlifts are going up, the 'routine' is irrelevant, it is just a means to an end.

 

[blut wump]

Agreed, that's one of the best splits to pop up on here as a split routine.

When it comes down to it, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with working body parts once per week. It's just that it's considered more efficient to increase the frequency on the major lifts.

 

[Neo22]

Agreed, that's one of the best splits to pop up on here as a split routine.

When it comes down to it, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with working body parts once per week. It's just that it's considered more efficient to increase the frequency on the major lifts.

The only reason I thought about changing it was bc I keep recently reading you need to hit the bodyparts twice a week. I've always done mainly compound movements with heavy weight and not tricep pushdowns. For triceps I usually do a lot of close grip bench and dips. If you guys think my split is fine I can stick with it and just keep adding weight.

 

[BiggT]

Neo, don't fix what isn't broken. You don't need to 'hit' bodyparts x times a week.....you just need to organize your training to foster progression on what counts.....frequency is a great way to train 'lifts', it isn't the only way. If you are progressing, keep doing what you're doing until you no longer progress, at that point, a change to more frequency to load may be good, then yu can reduce the frequency when you begin feeling run down......but honestly, I like that routine you posted a lot.....if it is doing it's job, don't change it.

I posted that long post yesterday, and I think some of the other replies were what they were because nobody was expecting your training to look that good. Not a slam against you personally, but I have spent a fair amoun of time on discussion boards, and MOST of the time when somebody is talking "BB Splits" and voicing symmetry comcerns, their routine is an inefficient curl and pressdown fest cluttered with iso-fluff and no plan for progression........I think you've got a great handle on this and I am not surprised you've made great gains over the years.

 

[blut wump]

Agreed, and I apologise if my post seemed a little brusque.

 

[Tweakle]

the argument made for increased frequency systems is they allow you to get more productive workouts in a set period of time. If you train each 'bodypart' once a week that's only 52 workouts at best a year, vs 70+ sessions a year if you train on a more frequent split.

The problem is that if you have shitty recovery (relative to the poundages you lift) and can't progress without taking extra days off here & there, or have to deload every few weeks to keep things rolling, then you end up with pretty much the same total number of workouts in a set time period that someone doing a m/w/f split would get in. I LOVE the upper/lower or legs+pulling/pushing splits, but have to alternate them with periods of once-a-week training to avoid burning out.

 

[Neo22]

the argument made for increased frequency systems is they allow you to get more productive workouts in a set period of time. If you train each 'bodypart' once a week that's only 52 workouts at best a year, vs 70+ sessions a year if you train on a more frequent split.

The problem is that if you have shitty recovery (relative to the poundages you lift) and can't progress without taking extra days off here & there, or have to deload every few weeks to keep things rolling, then you end up with pretty much the same total number of workouts in a set time period that someone doing a m/w/f split would get in. I LOVE the upper/lower or legs+pulling/pushing splits, but have to alternate them with periods of once-a-week training to avoid burning out.

dont you mean 104?

 

[Tweakle]

not for me, I'd prefer anyone using a DC style split where everything gets hit every 10 days as opposed to twice a week.. not that twice a week doesn't work for people with great recovery abilities, but imo it's too much for joe-average (once the weights get up there of course)

 

[Neo22]

not for me, I'd prefer anyone using a DC style split where everything gets hit every 10 days as opposed to twice a week.. not that twice a week doesn't work for people with great recovery abilities, but imo it's too much for joe-average (once the weights get up there of course)

whats a dc split? I have never heard of it.

 

[blut wump]

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