Menno Henselmans on the Benefits of Full-Body Workouts

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I have trained full body 6 times per week for almost a year now. Best natty gains in a long time. Highly recommend.

I use high intensity weight training complex compound movements full body workouts every other day. I do sprint intervals at leat twice a week. I am 60 years of age. Always be consistent with your training, also always have a variety of workouts.

I've been doing full body every weekday for some months now. The best thing is: BEAUTIFUL PUMP EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Breath of fresh air 🙏

That was quality, very interesting

Antagonist super-sets or as Menno called them "combo-sets" are what I employ and they work wonders. Instead of going straight from bench to chins for example, I'll do a hard set of bench, rest a minute, then hit Chins, rest a minute, then hit bench etc. Works great because you end up getting about 2 minutes or so rest between your bench sets as well as your chins. You get more work done in less time without compromising the second movement when doing traditional antagonist sets where you go from one movement DIRECTLY into the second. The trio set that was touched on around the 28:30 mark is also very intriguing. For instance, Chins rest a minute, then do Standing Landmine Press, rest a minute then do weighted split squats, rest a minute then repeat. You're getting plenty of rest for each movement with the over lapping rest and none of those movements should interfere with one another. You could do the same for something like Dips, rows, leg press for instance. The possibilities are endless and unless you're EXTREMELY strong, or specifically doing powerlifting-esque training, I see no reason this wouldn't work just fine if pairing the correct movements together.

Wow. Amazing info. Thanks.

Since I've started 4-5x a week full body I've gotten the best natural gains ever vs when I did splits

Good stuff.

I typically grab a couple heavy kettlebells now and do a bunch of cleans, snatches, clean and press, front squats, clean and jerks, and also a bunch of calisthenics basics and leaded carries most days of the week. I can't imagine training my body by body part or any kind of split. Your body works as a full unit. I am also not a bodybuilder by any stretch though.

Full body has been my favorite method. During the pandemic i did it 5 to 6 times a week with different intensity and modalities, trained outside majority of the time, so it was really fun. Lately, full body every other day with two sessions being near 2rm and then two sessions of explosive versions of the same movement, and with two variations of workouts, gave me really good strength progress and felt like my volume was perfectly tailored. Every lift got hit twice per 8 days and every muscle four times.

My Full body 3X a week program: -Squats (main knee flexion) - Db Bench (secondary horizontal push) -Cable Rows -Seated Leg Curls superset Lateral Raises -Bicep isolation superset tricep isolation of choice -Abs -RDLs (main hip hinge) -OHP (main vertical press) -Pull Ups -Leg Extensions -chest Isolation superset with traps -Abs and rear Delt isolation -Bench Press (main horizontal press) -BB Rows -Lunges (accessory legs) -Back Extension -Bicep isolation + long head tricep isolation -abs superset face pulls

I'm 50 years old and I'm doing full body four times a week. Due to the intensity of each working set, I find it difficult to do it all in one session, so I split upper/lower body into two 30-minute sessions per day, one before my first meal and one before my second meal. This keeps my energy really high for each session, doing two working sets per body part. 30 minutes per session is perfect for this. I eat a very good, satisfying meal after each session, putting me at about 1800 calories in a 6-7 hour eating window. OMG at the moment I'm loving this. This checks a lot of boxes for me.

Muy buena charla, con información muy clara y valiosa. Particularmente, soy un gran partidario del entrenamiento full body en principiantes.

I just wish menno's mic was a better one

Love your channel. My question is, if you are a newbie lifter, is it ok to do a full body workout 5 or 6 days a week. I've been lifting consistently for about a year and did a 3 day full body split. I just started a full body at 5 days a week and am feeling a change and improvement for me. Loving this split.

Personal trainer specialist sports nutrition 25 years bodybuilding

Can you share some research links on the atagonistic superset theory. Found this especially interesting, and it sounds like there is consensus between multiple sources.

12:30 Man 10 sets to true failure is a LOT. Most people dont get that 10 sets are a ton of load because they dont push the sets to the max. Most people train light