How Often Should You Train a Muscle? - This NEW Study Is Epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6bweyQCZo

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sets must be to or very close to failure within a rep range.

nine sets in one session vs those same nine sets across three sessions.

there is no crystal clear benefit of training a muscle more than 1x per week.

when the number of weekly sets are equated how often you choose to train a muscle in a week doesn't seem to matter all that much.

researcher split the studies into those using recoverable and unrecoverable volumes the analyses still fail to demonstrate a clear and large benefit of higher frequencies with either recoverable or unrecoverable volumes.

if we're performing 15 weekly sets for the biceps you would think performing all of that in one session would be excessively fatiguing such that dividing it across a couple of days leads to higher quality sets and thus better growth. however this is something that is not clearly supported by the literature.

the study