Thread: advice on a workout split

Why not, try it for a bit and see how it works for you. I prefer the split your doing at the moment though to be honest back and tri's etc and just mix the exercises up and rep ranges, but they say a change is as good as a rest so give it a go. Good luck bud

that is fine... its a good split cause chest stuff uses your tris and back stuff uses your bis so its good to hit them on the same rather than opposing days. what about your legs and shoulders though?? are you working those too??

Originally Posted by Fernando300

is back and biceps and chest and triceps a good workout routine for muscle size and strength example:
monday-chest triceps
wednesday back biceps

was doing chest and biceps and back and triceps but i wanna switch this up and was wondering what everyones thoughts were

That's not a routine. That's a list of body parts -- a list that's missing legs.

What exercises? Sets and reps? Diet? Goals?

Originally Posted by fraseram

that is fine... its a good split cause chest stuff uses your tris and back stuff uses your bis so its good to hit them on the same rather than opposing days. what about your legs and shoulders though?? are you working those too??

The shoulders DO get worked in back (posterior delts) and chest movements (anterior and lateral). However, I agree that direct "shoulder" movements should be included. I'm not talking about front raises. Military Press is the best example of a shoulder-dominant movement.

To the OP -- why not orient your training into pushing and pulling? So, you'd have chest-dominant movements classified with shoulder-dominant movements, as they train the same muscle groups (though shoulder-dom/vertical pressing doesn't work the chest that much if at all) and horizontal back movements like rows classified with vertical movements like chinups and pulldowns.

A great program that combines the intelligent compound movement-based push/pull concept with a variety of rep ranges from heavy to high-rep with the addition of a few minor isolation sets per week is Built's Baby Got Back program. This is great if you want to be muscular yet really strong. Typical bodybuilding programs aren't the most efficient for strength or even size -- unless you really know how to diet well...and of course drugs....

I just presumed he had a leg/shoulder day

Originally Posted by Phineas

That's not a routine. That's a list of body parts -- a list that's missing legs.

What exercises? Sets and reps? Diet? Goals?

yea this is just an example i do legs friday and shoulders and traps saturday
and i think im gonna continue to do chest and biceps and back and triceps
I can hit them harder
and um yea I also posted my goals as well, some muscle size and more importantly strength so im doing heavy weightt low reps and for arms mid and light weight high reps 12 10 8

and im doing 5 excercises for big muscle groups like chest and back and then 3 excercises for biceps and triceps so 9 sets for tris 8 for bis and 15 sets for chest and back

by the way is doing chest and biceps monday followed by wednesday back triceps okay? i heard alot of people saying it is but its just my bis are sore wednesday still and so are my tris
I've seen strength increase in my lifts but is this alright to continue lifting even if im sore wednesday