4 am/Pm workouts instead of 3

[xxfunguy007xx2000]

I dont understand why for HST, we only do 3 workouts. Why after the 3 rd workout we rest for 2 instead of just 1 day? If i do 4 AM/PM workouts a week, instead of 3, and resting 1 day after each, would that be beneficial or bad?

 

[noobie]

THat's prefectly fine. You just don't load on the second day because your muscles need to recover. THeres much talk on the forum from 4x to 12x a week. As long as you can manage the fatigue it is fine to increase frequency which is argueably better with protein synthesis, nutrition partitioning and a whole humdinger of things.

yes doing am pm splits will be benficial as long as you can keep progressing and junk.

pzhang

 

[Totentanz]

I prefer working out every other day instead of 3 days a week. It ends up being 4 days one week then 3 the next. I don't think it is necessarily better than 3 a week... and sometimes an extra day of rest can be a good thing. If it works better for you then do it.