3x a week

[FUZO]

if someone trained say there shoulders 3x a week what do you think will happen

[ketsugo]

Re: 3x a week

INJURY, SEVERE DAMAGE , EXTREME FATIGUE OVER TRAINING- NOTHING GOOD lol

[bowbow]

Re: 3x a week

same thing i was thinking. i just didnt have to say it. lol

[daved150]

Re: 3x a week

too much, but i believe you can do short periods of 2 a week!! im glad you asked bro...you need a couple shoullders, lol

[Dzone]

Re: 3x a week

Ive done it. Not for a long time..a couple weeks...Hell, I trained them almost every day ...No I dont advise people to do the things I have done...LOL...
A lot was experimental.

[6p6]

Re: 3x a week

definitely wouldn't be growing...now if it was sport specific you could do it but then again you'd probably be talking bands, extreme light weight with focus on movement and not bodybuilding type training...

[jamescb77]

Re: 3x a week

yea i think you would end up with a serious injury after any kind of time. the body needs rest to recover.

[Doink the clown]

Re: 3x a week

problems.............they get hammered everywhere else

[Dzone]

Re: 3x a week

I have trained my calves every day before and they grew. Go figure.

[daved150]

Re: 3x a week

I have trained my calves every day before and they grew. Go figure.

ya know...i think for calves and forarms a whole different set of rules may apply!! i know a guy that did forarms almost every day and his forarms were awsome....

[effinrob]

Re: 3x a week

I think once a week is good because i know my front delts get hammered on chest day... so its not something i suggest. 3x a week is def overtraining

[Moxie]

Re: 3x a week

I think once a week is good because i know my front delts get hammered on chest day... so its not something i suggest. 3x a week is def overtraining

Very good point here...the shoulders get smashed without even having a shoulder day. Think about it, as you said rob front delts get hit hard on chest day, and rear delts get hit hard on back day. This is why I train lateral delts on chest day and don't have a shoulder day at all.

To answer the original question though, I would say it is only okay to hit shoulders 3x per week if you are doing one exercise for them and no more than 3 sets. Say if I was designing a program for an extremely deconditioned woman who has never set foot in a gym before. I would put her on a full body routine. For shoulders I'd pick an exercise like an overhead DB press 2 or 3 sets only. No other exercises for the delts at all. She could do this 3x per week with at least 48 hrs rest between workouts and see results. Neurologically she could make great progress, and with such low training volume she can hit it 3x per week. Eventually when I wanted to introduce some more advanced techniques, like any isolation exercises, supersets, dropsets, etc for the delts and do any more than one exercise for the delts, I would say 3x per week is too much.

[Blackfoot]

Re: 3x a week

if someone trained say there shoulders 3x a week what do you think will happen

I think it would depend on the athlete's experience, intensity, and level of conditioning. You could theoretically train anterior delts on mon, medial delts on wed, and posterior delts on friday. jmo