Does two or three day training splits actually work for muscle gain?

I mean if I do chest back shoulders on Saturday and on Sunday I do arms and legs I've read that body builders do one body part a day anyway so would that be good for the whole week and I do abs every other day?

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That pattern is used to let the muscles rest sufficiently after working out in a certain way that would require them to take a week or more to full heal. Most people don't do enough to take a week to heal and training a muscle once a week is just going to make it not grow. It needs to heal to grow. That's exactly what you are seeing, it grows because it healed. A bodybiulder will work it very hard and make it break down very much, so it takes a week to grow back. You can't just hang around and wait so you get a cycle going. While your chest is healing, you can work the back. While both of those are off limits, you can work your legs and after 3 days, you're chest is healed and you can have it again. There's a lot of conflicting thoughts on what pattern to use. Some guysDo all pulling and all pushing Some do growing, explosive, and toning in intervals. Some do chest and back. Some will separate chest and shoulders then arms and abs. You can mix it up any way you want, really. But the one thing sure to leave you with none of the results and all of the suffering is doing the same exact thing every day. Look on here how many people say "I've been doing 40 mins on the treadmill for 3 months and I haven't lost any more weight after the first month." The body is adaptable, that's the fact we are "abusing" in a way when we try to build muscle for vanity. If the first few cavemen got out of breath every single time they chased an antelope and lost 10 pounds a day doing so, they would never survive and they didn't! Working out tells your body that it needs to change to do something. It's only stipulation is that it will balance that request with the limits of efficiency. You can run longer and lift more everytime because your body is a lazy-butt. If it knows it has to run and lift weights, it will do it with as little effort and change as possible. You can do it any way you like but your responsibility as someone looking to change their body is to keep it guessing. It never gets worn out and it never stops growing. Training splits are the only way to get all of the gains and only a little of the pain.

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• Yes, it helps. It allows the small tears in the muscles to repair. This is for muscle mass gain. If you work a muscle every day the muscle will be tighter and leaner but not as large.