Everybody is different but in my experience my arms and shoulders responded best to high volume (20+ working sets a week) and intensifiers (drop sets, cluster sets, partials, rest pause sets, etc.) split across two days.For muscle groups like shoulders and arms, is it necessary to do a lot of sets on these, as compound movements like bench, chins, dips also hit them.
E.g in a week I hit 16 chest sets, wouldn't 16 sets for shoulders as well be overkill as a lotta chest exercises also hit them.
Same for triceps, with all the benching, dips, shoulder pressing, do I still need to do many isolation exercises.![]()
Plus, rear and side delts don’t get hit as much on compound exercises as front delts so you're going to need to give them some specific training.
Overall, I would not worry about workload on one muscle group creating junk volume in another muscle group.
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