Is training each FBE once a week enough to progress

I have at least 16 FBE's i could be doing, maybe even more. I'm currently doing 8 but am planning to add 4 more, 2 push and 2 pull. So i would have 6 push and 6 pull FBE's.

The thing is, if i were to add 4 more, then i could only train each FBE once a week and i dont know if that is enough to advance on all of them. Hence the thread. Having 8 right now allows me to train each one about 2 times a week doing 3 workouts a week, they're 2 workouts (A and B) and they alternate each week so one week A is done twice and B once and the next week it's the opposite.

I'm doing 4 exercises per workout (2 push 2 pull) and with only those 4 exercises the workout takes 50 min to finish. Of course i could add 2 more exercises but then it would take more than an hour and i dont want that, i dont want the workouts to take that long. Im ok with 50 min but am willing to throw in 2 more exercises if it would be better. If i were to actually do this then i would train each one about 2 times a week.

I've had the "more must be better" mentality virtually all the time since i started exercising a few years back and only until now have i toned it down a lot, which is why i am even considering doing them once a week. Before i wouldve never even thought about this.

So is doing each FBE once a week enough to progress?

It sounds like too many exercises not enough time on each. Twice a week would be better. Keep in mind that the exercises in the book are closer to an ordered list than a hodgepodge. I'm making an assumption here, but I bet you are picking exercises at random. Work through them by section, one by one.

if you can work on different plans you will find that you can work one exercise one time a week...

i talked with my friend who did powerlifting for 10-12 years and now he is working on bodyweigth exercises where he uses an exercise 3 times a week in a buffer way...so one exercise is done 3 times a week, one day hard version for 5x2, another day 3x3, and the last day 2x5...so in this way you train one plan hard only one day a week and is enough..to make the exercise easier simple decrease the leverage

now i'm follwing the idea of Coach sommer of dividing the week into plans and do different plans one day a week combined with steady state cycle and it works very well...i apply this concept where i have the possibility to vary the lever without use the overweigth as planche push up, or front lever rows..

in the exercise where is possible to use overweigth (or a pulley machine to take off some weigth) as pullup i use strength progression based on the 90% of the 1RM....and for this training method i need only one day a week (i can use for curl, dip,pull up and more)...after one month i can add 2.5/3kg to my RM

Cole Dano said:

It sounds like too many exercises not enough time on each. Twice a week would be better. Keep in mind that the exercises in the book are closer to an ordered list than a hodgepodge. I'm making an assumption here, but I bet you are picking exercises at random. Work through them by section, one by one.

No, they're not picked at random. But what i mean is, i wouldn't want to do only one type of dip, I am able to do regular dips, bulgarian and the two types of single bar dips (normal and undergrip) but im only doing regular ones because i can't fit the others yet. Maybe koreans also.

Ok now I understand your point. Think of the dips (and everything else in the book) as a progression, so if you can do the single bars, use them for your work sets. You can of course do some easier one(s) as a warm up, and a push up as well. You can also think of the pushing planes as a progression, horizontal, vertical, overhead/inverted.

There are a couple of errors in the first edition, for example with the dips, single bars are easier than Russian at least in my opinion.