The gym is my personal sanctuary, and weights are my prayer of choice. On a serious note, I really enjoy working out and my life isn’t the same without the gym in my life. The benefits of lifting weights are many, and my regular use of the gym improves my life in many aspects. I’m stronger, I have more energy, and it makes me a happier person overall.

I like to be as steady as I can with my workouts. It keeps things easy and routine, and I end up not neglecting any part of my body this way. Still, I’ve never really known whether to go with one or two muscles per workout.

I’ve tried both of these approaches. For a very long time, I would regularly work two muscle groups together in one workout.

I’d do chest with triceps, back with biceps, and shoulders with legs. I had a solid three day rotation, meaning that I was hitting up most of my muscle groups twice per week.

Many people would advocate this strategy, as it allowed me to get some work in on each muscle twice per week. My body was definitely getting a workout.

On the other hand, it was taking me at least 90 minutes per workout and sometimes I didn’t have time for this. Others also believe that hitting each muscle twice in a week is overdoing it.

Recently, I decided to change things up by switching to a six day rotation. I just work on one muscle group each visit to the gym, which allows me to do some more sets and get a better workout in.

What it all comes down to in the end is how this all impacts the body. There’s good and bad to this approach. The good is that you can really get away with it, as long as you make sure you’re getting to the gym more than every other day. The bad is that if you fall behind, your muscles may suffer for it.

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