Why does Veeky Forums tell me not to overtrain by working out 5-6 days a week...

Why does Veeky Forums tell me not to overtrain by working out 5-6 days a week, but then says if a body part is lagging but it multiple times a week?

Wouldn't more work on all muscles in general be more productive?

Hit it*

Ideal natty routine: Full body 3.5 days a week

(Muscles need 48 hours to heal)

Ideal roid routine: Full body everyday

If you lift 5-6 times a week with no roids, you have to do a split, which is shit.

There is a (mistaken) opinion here by many that splits are good for roiders, but they aren't

Overtraining is a meme

You have to do A LOT to actually "overtrain"...usually its only body builders who have to worry about this.

Just lift, eat, and get a good nights rest.

working out 5-6 days a week is fine, just make sure you're eating and drinking enough while not doing the same muscle groups every day

I've been doing PPLxPPL for the last year or so now, should I start switching it up and maybe try full body? I'm addicted to the gym and need to go at least 5-6 times a week.

>Ideal DYEL routine
ftfy

Just do what feels good.

99% of Veeky Forums won't ever manage to overtrain. The only time I've ever done it was when I was doing weightlifting training 6x/week, using above 80% on squats and pulls while either snatching or cleaning every day.

Ideally if you're doing BB you want to hit a body part at least twice a week, with three being a relative upper limit. But nearly everyone can adapt to a very high level of frequency, and it's sustainable so long as you vary your volume and intensity.

Approach programming like this: you can keep two of intensity, frequency, and volume high, and your capacity for all three will increase. You can do very short cycles where all 3 are high (usually no longer than a week) which I think is called supercompensation (can't remember). You then take a very light week after each cycle to reset.

If you have a lagging body part, you can hit it 3-4 times a week and only take a break when you start to lose strength or get a repetitive use injury (like elbow pain after hitting triceps too much).

I would stick with ppl unless you're not happy with results.

If you want to try a full body, I've been toying with the idea of going from ppl to Full body every other day, accessories every non-full body day. so

A: squat, deadlift, bench 5x5
B: pull ups, cable rows, bicep curls like crazy, abs like crazy
C: squat, deadlift, ohp 5x5
D: dumbbell bench, cable crossover, tricep push down, tricep extensions like crazy, abs like crazy

and do ABCDxABCDx

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