full body versus split routines

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I was wondering, why it is that a natural should train more frequently
then a steroid user? I know lots of sources suggest more abbreviated
workouts for a natural and that if you do multiple full body workouts
in the same week the volume will be lower per workout so you can
recover faster since you aren't going crazy on volume. But it almost
seems to be the reverse of what you'd think. That a natural would need
more time for their body to recover and the steriod user would recover
faster.

Thanks.

Look at the big picture, what happens on a weekly or monthly basis. On the
one body part a day camp, if they were to add up there monthly sets per body
part, and the whole body camp were to add up theirs, the numbers should be
very telling. With more frequent stimuli, there are more windows of
opportunities for gains.

That being said, I am toying with earlier termination of sets in my
workouts. Setting a goal rep range for an exercise. I seem to get more
quality reps from a 5x5 as opposed to its nearest equivalent, 3 sets of 8.
As the load goes up, I may stretch it to 8 sets of 3. The total time under
tension for an exercise works out to be the same, nearly, and the amount of
force I can generate per rep, or the sum of the force generated with fresh
reps on every set as opposed to garbage reps at the end of a quality set
intuitively seems to be more ideal.

That is far and away from what you were asking, but what time recovery takes
is a very personal issue. performance based inspection, IMHO is a better
tool than visual.
Hell, there is no "this is best." if that were the case, we wouldn't have a
forum nor would there be shelves and shelves of books and a trainer would
never be necessary. More frequent sessions, seems to me that getting three
nickels is much more than 1 dime any way you look at it.