I just looked it up. That shyt is exactly why noobs crash out.
It’s “hard” for a regular like me to force myself to hit the gym 3-4 times a week.
But we telling a noob to hit a muscle group once per week, for 5 days.
That’s exactly why they don’t see any gains.
Only way to get good at doing compound movements like squats, is to do it more frequently
Disagreed. Some of us regulars have no life besides gymming and work; I have to actively try not to go 6-7 a week too often. (I average 5-6 times a week each year.)
A bro split can hit muscle groups more than once a week, depending on how it's programmed. Delts get hit on both Chest and Shoulders days; Quads and Hamstrings get hit on Leg and Back days (if you deadliff on Back day), etc.
They don't see gains because they lack consistency and intensity and have poor exercise selection moreso than anything else IMO.
Only way to get good at doing compound movements like squats, is to do it more frequently
A lot of powerlifting splits and programs used for powerlifting (like 5/3/1) only have you doing a given compound lift once or twice (max) a week, so I don't know, everybody handles volume and frequency differently (i.e. individual differences) to some degree. I got a homeboy at my gym now totaling over 1500 raw w/ sleeves and he doesn't usually hit a lift more than once a week from what I know.
BEsides, most of these folks including dudes ITT will never compete anyways so how much does this really matter?
I had an athletic, brolic manlet homie at work (a me is black papi
Dominicuz) that wrote up a Bro Split for me years back.
I took that shyt, basically added 5/3/1 sets to all the Big 4 lifts and rocked with it. Pretty sure I still got the template lying around somewhere.
I was benching and hit chest + delts & tris (indirectly) on bench day.
I was squatting and hitting calves on leg day.
I overhead pressed and hit delts + chest & tris (indirectly) on shoulders day.
I hit back and bis on back day and got legs involved by deadlifting.
I had pull-ups and arms on arm day, so lats, back, rear delts, bis, and tris all got hit.
I did direct ab work and cardio on ab day to round off the week and peep the gym brawds on Saturday.
shyt worked. I may even run it back when I get bored.