I agree, at least on principle...had someone been asking the question, I'd have certainly gone more in-depth. As it was, I was simply noting that what we sometimes see as "must do" things, aren't always what they might appear to be.
As an example, since it's been asked.
My current training cycle has me doing this:
Monday - pulling (right now, power snatch/volume, some type of DL or box squat, calf assistance)
Tuesday - upper body, press emphasis (heavy overhead press, bench assist, pullups, arm work)
Thursday - squatting (power snatch/intensity, full squats, calf assistance)
Friday or Saturday - upper body, heavy pressing (heavy bench/bench assistance, overhead press, back work, arm work)
Those are the four "main" workouts I do. For the bench, OHP, pullups, and full squat, I'm doing a progression from three singles to 5-6 singles with a given weight before progressing in weight on the heavy session. The lighter session is a progression from 3x3 to 5x5 over several sessions before adding weight.
DL/pull work is relegated to assistance at the moment, with a variety of different pulling and general PC work to build up the area; this is just to build up some foundational stuff before going back to super-heavy pulling (that 605x2 will be mine soon enough).
Everything else is a blend of various hypertrophy-type methods. Lats/back is just getting in a lot of rows of all types, 5-10 reps. For arms, I'm liking sets of 20 for db curls and db extensions right now, adding weight at the 20-rep mark, and doing heavy negatives another day. Calves can't go wrong with just piling weight on the leg press and making sure to get that pause at the bottom. etc etc.
So I do my upper body session Tuesday. If I feel like coming back the next day and doing say an exercise for chest, shoulders, arms, whatever, I do it. I keep the reps high, in the 10-15 range, keep the overall stress low, and limit it to one exercise per part. But I do it. Same goes for lower body, albeit I'm a little more judicious and just limit that to quads and calves if at all. I'd also count "running" cardio as either leg hypertrophy work or active recovery work depending on intensity/volume; same idea with the upper body if I want to come in and box another session.
