How often to train a muscle?
Guys I am confused about how often to train a particular muscle group like chest. 3-times per week is what I’m trying now but wonder if it should be less..
Some stats:
•natural intermediate level, middle-aged gym-goer
•normal sized penis
Ok my question;
-let’s say I like training both chest (incline press 2 sets, dips 2 sets, inclines dumbbell press 2 sets) and quads/glutes (via squats 2 sets with high reps) on Monday along with a bit of bicep/tricep and random other full body exercises in a session. When training upper front of body showy muscle groups (chest biceps shoulders and triceps) I like to do about 5-6 good working sets in a session with some drop sets and warmup sets surrounding those true working sets. I just do some minimal lifting on legs for now because my legs are somewhat thick already.
Can I just do that same session on Wednesday? Is that too soon? How about Friday?
After training session I’ll have soreness for a couple of days and if I trained it effectively the muscle will stay kind of half way sore for several days even up to perhaps a work week of time to fully recover. I want to find the ideal number of times to train those muscles in a week for me. Is it better to be training chest and legs just once per week, twice per week or three times?? …or can I be training them when they are a little bit sore?
The 2nd question: is it even worthwhile to train legs if someone already has decent muscles? My priority is upper body showy muscle groups like arms and chest and shoulders, and wanting to maximize the V taper jacked look as much as possible, I’ve trained my legs for a few years and feel like I’m maybe overdoing it on legs, because making them thicker than what they currently are is not going to equate to being more attractive, at this point it might work against me and make me look shorter and less attractive. My question regarding leg training is- once someone has fairly thick legs can they just switch to minimal leg training or almost zero leg training to get more muscle to grow up on the upper body and to not ‘waste’ effort, recovery etc on their legs?