this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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I've been going to the gym for a few months, still feel like a noob tho.

I track what exercises I do, weight & reps, etc, and try to rotate between the different exercises I enjoy.

However I don't do leg-centric days or anything like that, I just try and do a variety each week and not go too long without exercising specific areas. Is that bad?

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[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, and there is research that suggests training muscle groups multiple times per week provides more opportunity for growth.

Think that you want 10-20 working sets for all of your major muscle groups per week. It’d be difficult to get all of those in, with sufficient effort, in a single workout. Much easier to accomplish the same feat if splitting the effort into 2-3 efforts per week.

There are other schools of thought, of course. I think ultimately as long as you’re getting sufficient volume and are progressively overloading, you’ll be fine. Try to not overthink it.