Should The Skinny Guy Avoid Working to Failure and Split Routines
Many body builders believe that your muscles must be ‘worked to failure‘ if an adequate hypertrophy response is to happen. Whether this involves one or more sets really doesn’t matter as in either scenario the muscles must be worked to failure.
If you are not sure what working to failure is, it simply means to keep doing reps until you can’t do any more and fail to complete the last rep. If this is something you are going to try for the first time make sure you have a spotter, especially on the bench.
Training to failure can be dangerous if you don’t take the right precautions.
Working to failure and what you can expect
Working to failure will cause significant microscopic damage to the muscle tissues and it is during the period of rest and recovery that protein synthesis starts to do its thing, which is the repair process, and the result is bigger muscle fibers.
This is how you achieve maximum muscle gain.
So the big question is, how long does the repair process take and what is a safe time frame before exposing those same muscles to further intensive exercise?
Scientific studies tell us that muscle fiber degradation should take about five to seven days to completely repair and recover.
So if you work out those muscles too early after the last workout, and with the type of intensity you should put into a workout, you will only hurt your recovery and actually hurt your muscle gain by preventing it from achieving maximum growth.
The resting muscles can still help
The good news is you can still use those muscles to assist in working out other muscle groups, or if you want to engage in low intensity aerobics it will not hurt your recovery.
In order to achieve the results you get by working to failure and still be able to rest the muscles for 5 to 7 days you need to use split routines.
Split routines will let you work out several times a week and let you hit a muscle group with intensity while only hitting each muscle group once every 5 to 7 days.
You will want to experiment a little with this. Try resting each muscle group for 5 days at first if you feel too fatigued when you start working that group again, or you are not realizing the gains you think you should, then increase to 7 days rest.
Does this routine work for anybody?
Now this type of routine is not for everyone. If you are a naturally skinny guy or ectomorph I would not recommend this type of routine.
The ectomorph responds better to a full body workout using compound exercises 3 times a week.
Plus the ectomorph has to learn how to eat and rest to get the best results. A skinny guy gets fatigued faster than the average guy and has to double the rest time.
Another reason I wouldn’t recommend this type of workout for the skinny guy is because the split routine requires too long of a rest before you hit that muscle group again.
A skinny guy just won’t see results; they have to hit all muscle groups 3 times a week to see real gains. Working out to failure does work for some, but not all, especially the skinny guy.
There are some who believe that working out to failure is unnecessary to build muscle and strength and you are only risking injury with this type of routine.
It is important to make sure you know your body type before you hit the weights. If you are a skinny guy split routines and working to failure are probably not for you.
Now this doesn’t mean that skinny guy’s have to avoid working to failure or split routines forever. There might be a time after you have packed on some weight and muscle that you can start to experiment with this type of workout.
However, you will still need to be very aware of making sure you get the proper amount of rest time and how your body is responding to the workout. This will make sure you are seeing and not hurting your muscle gain.
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