Nytol
Competitor
I don't recall speaking to you about it before mate but who knows you might be right
I've taken a job where training might be a bit difficult so I'll probably be stuck training fairly infrequently, that's the only reason I ask as I still wanna progress if possible
I started training this way through necessity/accident, I moved to a very rural area and could only get to the gym twice a week, so I used a 3 way split, over 9 days, Mon, Thurs, Mon.
After being in a bit of a rut for a while, my progress suddenly shot up, which I was not expecting.
This made me consider recovery even more, and a few years later, when I was stronger, and hitting a bit of a wall, I thought why not try an even longer period of recovery, so gave it a go, and started to progress again.
At this time I was benching 200kg+ every session, and pulling near 300kg every session, plus weighted chins with 50-60kg etc, so the stress on my 105kg frame was significant.
Currently I split things, Monday/Thursday each week.
Chest, Delts, Triceps
Legs
Lats and Biceps
Deadlifts
The main thing I want when I speak to people about this, is not that they start training twice a week etc, but that they get the 7 day man made week out of their head and realise that has nothing to do with human biology or muscle recovery, it may take longer, or if you are born with Ronnie Coleman genetics you may genuinely be able to train more frequently and recover fully, but that is rare as rocking horse shit