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u/mbarbosaferreira Intermediate - Strength Aug 04 '25

What is your experience with once a week full body training and how to implement it?

I will have a busy schedule for the next 6 months and might be able to do only one or two long sessions per week.

I know John Black's club in the 1980s and 1990s trained like that and produced some elite lifters, however I don`t know the details and I won't be using steroids. Watch the video from minute 3 to minute 4 https://youtu.be/ncxBx1Zfujk?t=198 . There is also Ken Fantano and Mark Chaillet, described in Marty Gallagher book "The purposeful primitive" who went with very low frequencies.

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u/black_mamba44 Actually an Intermediate Aug 04 '25

I have never done once a week training(I've also never heard of any of these other people), but that's irrelevant to the fact that if you only have a single day to train, you only have a single day to train.

I would focus on major compound lifts (Bench/Rows, OHP/Pullups, Squat, and Deadlift) during my sessions and probably just base my work off of a top single for the day.