Is working out the same muscle group twice a week to much?

Legs only on Subday

I would do legs on Thursday then start the split over again. Take a break at some point, maybe on Sunday.

Mon: Chest tri
Tues: back bi
Wed: shoulders traps
Thurs: legs

repeat

The new routine I've been doing is really growing on me. The first week, I lift heavy and I'm talking 3-5 reps max. The next week, I lighten it up and go for around 16-20 reps. It's a great shock to the system and really helps transform while building muscle.

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Unless you're on PEDs, yes.

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False, numerous novice and immediate trainees follow push/pull and or upper/lower splits. Working out the same muscle twice a week actually stimulates the muscle fibers to a greater extent over once a week.

This is all concerning natural athletes.

Two days will stimulate to a great extent, yes. The muscle still needs time to recover to break it down again. Sorry, beating up a muscle twice a week with normal recovery doing medium to heavy volume isn't optimal. I would add more volume, drop sets, super sets, etc to that one day.

If you are a novice lifter, splitting your workout by body part is kinda a waste of time. I mean you'll see gains, as you most certainly have, but almost anything will give you gains as a beginner. You really only need to hit each main muscle group hard once on each workout. 3 days a week and you'll be fine as long as you're eating good.

After you've done it for a while you can start splitting it up.

That workout routine would wear me out mentally and physically after a couple weeks. I gotta have a couple rest days every week.

My typical week goes like this:

Day 1 - Chest
Day 2 - back/bi's
Day 3 - legs
Day 4 - shoulders/tri's
Day 5 - Core

I throw in two rest days somewhere in there.

When i get in a rut with that routine, i switch it up a little and do bi's and tri's together, and do back and shoulder by themselves.

I'll admit I'm not great at the healthy diet thing. I've been doing a lot of steak for gains and I'll throw in some fish every now n then but I haven't kicked the burgers and fries

Legs in one day? Yet you split your bis and tris. You should split legs into quads and hams. Then you'll look like a real man

I would add shoulders to the chest/tris day. Then do three days on, one day off. Once you are six months in or so, you can do a more complicated split and hit the same body parts less often.