Is it good to lift the same muscles twice a week?

Its good you have lasted 6 months working out. A lot of people last only a couple of weeks or days at times and when their muscles start hurting, they stop. Like they say, once you pass the first 3 months, you're hooked for life. Enough said, now to your problem ..

you said you hit a plateau. it happens to all who exercise and have maintained a certain routine and at times we get so comfortable with it, we forget to "upgrade" our routine.

To explain this let me just say that body building (working out with weights, yoga, pilates, cardio stuff - these are all elements of body building) is a 3-way process .. weight gain, weight loss and weight maintenance. it all depends on what you want, there is a body building program for that.

Now, to your question .. twice a week for a muscle group? YES, it is standard and suggested that you do. To further explain my point, it is also suggested that you divide your muscles into 2 groups. My agenda is like this day one - Inner Muscles (Chest, Back, Abs). Day Two - Outer Muscles (Arms, Shoulders, Legs). Day one work out all inner muscles and then day two, the outer muscle group.

And since you hit a plateau, you could try upgrading your routine, you can make it progressive. Example to this is ... say ...

Chest Exercise

1. Bench Press .. set one - 10 repetitions, weight - 50 lbs

set two - 8 repetitions, weight - 60 lbs

set 3 - 6 repetitions, weight - 70 lbs

as you can see, the repetitions lessen as the weight progresses. they call this the 10-8-6 routine. say you do this for a week and then the next week, you can do 55 - 65 - 75 lbs increase on your weights. and the heavier the weight becomes, the more muscle mass you develop. you must do this "upgrade" in your weight developments to a degree to which you are comfortable. Weight strength has to be developed and developed naturally.

do this upgrade style to all your whole body workout routine, the 10-8-6 and gradually increasing the weights.

Lastly, an exercise is only good if the execution is correct. Primarily, its not the weight that counts but the proper execution. Most people make a mistake of doing it the wrong way, thereby making the exercise less effective.

example: in the bench press, while lying down on the bench, lower the weight to your chest, slowly ... YES .. slowly, and feel the weight and if you can push it up fast, then do so. you have to control the "gravity pull" .. as the weight goes down to the direction of the floor, lower it slowly and feel the weight.

enough said ... monitor your exercise .. make a list, a pattern that you follow and see how your body develops. this way you can observe which exercise are effective and what muscle groups you need to improve on.

hope this helps

no thats a good routine as long as the muscles get at least a day of rest and switch up the lifts for each muscle every few weeks and thats the best u can do and yeah u dont need 72 hours ignore the moron above

you should switch and do arms on mon, wed, fri, and chest and back tues, thurs, sat

or something along those lines

it's good to give your muscles a break every other day so if you work out different muscles every day you'll probably see better results

i do with no problem.

my program for weight lifting is

mon and thur - chest, abs and calves

tues and fri - back, shoulders

wed and sat - legs, abs

i dont specificly hit my arm muscles because they get a good enough workout when i do my chest and back.

yes it's fine. as long as you give your muscles a couple of days break. when you lift weights, you tear your muscles. the resting days gives them a break and allows them to heal, and that's how you gain muscle.

if you do that have on heavy day and one light day

but really the only muscle group that should be worked twice is your legs

you should work out every muscle. Not just upper body

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