6 days a week?

[Sawyer]

Hey,

how would a reasonable 6 day per week program look like?

My Mo/We/Fr workouts get very long because of heavier workload and thus more rest between the sets. And the main problem is that over the next months I will have very limited time so I want to change to 6 days a week and train much shorter and also a little lighter. My goal for the next months is to steadily get better/increase the weights on a weekly basis (maybe around 3-5 pounds per week depending on the lift).

I´m well aware that overall I´m spending more time in the gym per week and I don´t have the same rest periods but if I don´t do it that way I think I won´t do it at all. Which would be terrible. Lifting lighter and shorter but regularly and therefore "only" adding weight weekly over several months seems preferable to not lifting at all or only 1 or 2 times a week or so.

I need help with programming this. My fist idea was something like this:

A
Squat 3x5 with 80-90 % of what I lift now and then increase weekly
Bench 3x5 with 80-90...
Dips 3x with 80-90...

B
Deadlift 2x5 with 80-90... (2x5 because 1x5 with 80-90 % seems not enough and 3x5 seems too much)
Press 3x5 with 80-90...
Chins 3x with 80-90...
Curls 2-3x with 80-90...

Does that make sense? What would make more sense?

Thanks! Sawyer

[Michael Wolf]

This somewhat depends on your personal info, training history and current level of adaptation, none of which you provided. So the short answer is I have no idea.

But reading between the lines, it sounds like you're still in your LP, is that right? Giving me the info linked above would be a good start.

I suspect what I'll tell you is that you should just do a maintenance program three days per week instead of a more complicated 6 day program. How short do you need your workouts to be and how long have they been taking you? Give me specific answers, not generalities.