Hi all, a question I’ve been wondering recently is what are the potential cons (or pros) of splitting a workout up throughout the day.
I’m still doing home workouts due to the pandemic and am looking for ways to switch it up because I’m having a really hard time getting decent workouts in - I just lose focus too quickly.
I was considering just trying splitting up the workout throughout the day. For example, a few sets of chest press in early afternoon, a few sets of a tricep workout in late afternoon, and a few sets of shoulder press in the evening.
I think when it comes to answering this question there is two main aspects 1) what type of training i’m doing (or what goals i’m looking for) and 2) whether or not to take risk for injury into account.
Regarding #1, in general I’m interested in powerbuilding. Basically I just like strength and bodybuilding and have no plans on competing or anything. As far as my workouts go, my hope is at least maintenance because I know my workouts arent good enough for me to maintain strength. I just know its important to keep moving weights so im doing that with my dumbbells at home.
Regarding #2, I dont like working out without a good warm up, and I know that good warm ups have helped prevent injury for myself in the past but recently my warmups have been shitty anyways.
My initial thought is that you will be losing out on the metabolic stress portion of the hypertrophy response because you wont be overlapping the workout as much. But maybe it will also allow you to get better sets in with a long rest in between.
I know theres a lot of hypotheticals and variables in here that need controlling for a perfect answer but I’m wondering if anyone knows science behind something like this or has experience with it first hand.