Thanks
I have read that myself, I should have mentioned that. I was meaning on how to best induce muscle hypertrophy the best and most efficient way, is still relatively a theory so far. Because there are many successful ways of training. But you are completely right above, I just didn't state that above. Thanks for catching me on that and bringing that good point up.
There are many ways of training, like most science it is just a theory. Full body or once a week is just an example of many ways of inducing muscle hypertrophy. They both have their benefits, as well as their downfalls. It all depends on how you train, for instance, I train at such an intensity that I am sore for about 5 or more days. But if I was to train FB or UB/LB splits I would obviously train differently or in a way to give my body enough stimulus on the given day and enough time to recover in hopefully 48 hrs.
There is no creme de la creme of training to induce the maiximum muscle hypertrophy over any other. If that were the case then everyone would be using the same split and training regiment. Both Rocky/Tunen/Knight Rider and 20inchgunstucson make good points, but we are talking about theory (although some with more physiological knowledge than another) on how to best induce muscle hypertrophy. Again, we do not know for sure. But its clear that one can gain muscle using both methods. It's all based off of preference and how you prefer to train and/or how your body recovers.
From a personal standpoint my body responds great to once a week because of the intensity I train at. But I have never given full body a try, so I cannot from a personal standpoint say that FB does not work. But I can say that once a week split has worked great for me, but again I have nothing to compare it to.
From a physiological standpoint I can see how FB would work, but like I said I have a preference to once a week training and once I feel a plateau that I cannot overcome I will be glad to give FB a try. You never know how something works until you yourself try it out.
Thats just my two cents
Blake, talk some sense into this kid at your next session will you?
I only return fire dude.
So we're dealing with your will and not your reason...
If I'm not mistaken, earlier in this thread you said you had tried FB but gave no details as to what you were doing per se or why you stopped doing it. Without said information it's really hard to take your experiences with said training principles seriously as you may have been performing it wrong in any one of a number of ways. The problem with our sport and the health industry in general right now is that so many carry around a non-progressive or traditionalist mindset and what's worse is how appallingly bad it is in young people. There's far too much idol worship in terms of putting the "personal experience of past athletes" training moniker up on a pedestal instead of subscribing to new scientific theory with properly backed data. Science has advanced bodybuilding an immeasurable extent over the past 15 years yet we're still not ready to give it our commitment in terms of breaking old training adages.
Yes, he actually said he's never tried it earlier in this thread. The argument about him being one of the strongest people you know is pretty much a moot point though as there are several other factors that can easily eclipse training style in terms of whether you will or won't make gains; optimizing them is a different beast though.20inchgunstucson said:
(that's not steroid related). like i said i believe many of these studies must be taken with a grain of salf because science never goes to any of the extremes bodybuilders do in terms of training, supplementation or anabolics. 
