I'm about to start school next week, and I'll have classes from Mon. through Thu. I set my schedule for day classes, so I'll be out by 9am, 12:45pm and 4:25pm as the latest, but on Thursdays I'll be at the school from 8am to 4:25pm(This day I won't go to they gym, it's too much!) so I'm trying to make a new schedule for the gym, and my plans were:
Monday: Shoulders (to start the week with something easy)
Tuesday: Back and biceps
Wednesday: Should I take it off or do Chest and triceps?
Thursday: Off
Friday: Shoulders
Saturday: Back
Sunday: It depends if I take Wed. off
So my question: Is it ok to take two consecutive days off? In my case would be Wed. and Thu. Or not?
My goal is to gain size.
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S.: You are free to criticize my planned schedule n to make suggestions.
Flakko
Posted by: CowPimp
How about you try a 3 day split of Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday? That way you only have to workout and goto class one day per week. Or, if you are the type who likes to have a couple of days totally free from obligations, then try a 3 day split of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Push-Pull-Legs is always good. Push is chest, anterior/lateral delts, and triceps. Pull is back, posterior delts, and biceps. Legs is, well, legs...
There is also the antagonistic split where you juxtapose back and chest in the previous split.
My favorite is 3 full body workouts. I always end up coming back to full body workouts.
Upper-Lower splits are good too. Some weeks you'll hit upper body twice, some weeks you'll hit lower body twice.
Posted by: soxmuscle
Taking two consecutive days off is fine, but I never enjoyed doing so unless it was after I had completed my routine for the week. For instance, I'd go with something that CowPimp came up with and workout every other day.
Posted by: Flakko
Thank you guys, I was thinking of doing as CowPimp said, maybe I'll do it like this:
Wed. - Chest/Triceps
Fri. - Back/Biceps
Sun.- Shoulders
Tue. - Legs (Since legs are legs, I guess I can always do it before/after any other body part)?
So it would be good, cuz then I will only go to school n gym 2 days a week.
What you guys think?
Flakko
Posted by: maxpro2
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Originally Posted by Flakko
Legs (Since legs are legs, I guess I can always do it before/after any other boyd part)?
You would think that; however, legs are a very demanding muscle group, and if you hit them right you shouldn't want to or be able to do another muscle group.
