how does a bodybuilder work 5 days a week?

can someone give me an example?? theres not even enough things to do unless your breaking down into one muscle group a day while on back days your still using your bis for example, mine get sore, i dont know about other people, but how can you work out 5 days a week??

Who says they are? It's not about quantity... it's quality. No such thing as what typical bodybuilders do. It varies. If everyone were doing the same thing, they'd all be on stage. It's not that simple.

Start here: www.hypertrophy-specific.com

- Osc

Right now I squat, deadlift and bench at least four times a week each.

If you're interested in hypertrophy I recommend:
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com

-Scott Johnson 'be a man ,stop looking for handouts , eat ,lift and shut your mouth' -John Carlo

I'm not doing that right now, but I've done it in the past and loved it. I was dieting so I didn't see a lot of muscle gain, but I didn't lose much if any.

There's other people with more experience with it in here (like Oscar).

-Scott Johnson 'be a man ,stop looking for handouts , eat ,lift and shut your mouth' -John Carlo

I'm not Scott, but I liked the HST program. I also like the Sheiko program... but that's for powerlifting/strength building. I like working my entire body (or most of my body) every time I lift.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

It's OK to work a muscle group more than once a week as long as it's not on consecutive days.

It's nowhere near as simple as this: some studies showed that working a muscle on consecutive days had a very positive effect (hey, just look at Keith Hobman, and most Olympic lifters). In addition, there are some very advanced training protocols that effectively amount to overtraining, followed by a reduction in volume that results in a really potent, long-lasting supercompensation response. The real trick is to get sufficient training stimulus and sufficient recovery over some hard-to- determine period of time. Knowing what is enough is the hard question of weight training.

Depending on your goals, it's OK to work a muscle on consecutive days.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

What goals would lend themselves to working muscle groups on consecutive

You got SEVEN hours sleep on basic training? That's wrong.

I thought 5 hours was sleeping in . . . oh sure, technically we had to be given 6 hours a night, but never were. Well, not if we wanted our inspections to be to standard. I had on average 3 hours a night for the first two and a half weeks, then my brain finally broke. I basically realized the inspections didn't mean so much, and made sure I got 5-6 hours a night. What a difference. I'm only in the reserves, so our basic training was only 42 days, unlike the 10 weeks of a reg force course. So they cut a lot of our PT to fit in all the same material the reg force have to learn . . . I didn't get in any better shape, and I was coughing up blood for two of the six weeks. Hyooge stress, and not enough physical activity (for basic training). Not fun at all. Knowing that half the people who signed up for it quit or were kicked off.

Since then I learned to take everything a lot less seriously, and I ended up doing much much better (topped my last course, compared with bottom third for my basic). And now, lucky me, I'm trying to transfer to a new unit (infantry . . .damned grunts), because I've moved. It was nice just sitting on my ass this past summer tho!

I think you're right. Different people will respond very differently, or even the same person at different times. How some people manage to gain when so overworked with so little rest is beyond me, but I've seen people do it too. Just not me!

Kevin J

Off the top of my pointy skull: strength, skill, endurance. I don't know that anyone has ever really looked at hitting the same muscle on consecutive days wrt hypertrophy.

Although the thread is about bodybuilding, sometimes bodybuilders want to get stronger. Not very often but occasionally.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis