Thread: How Is This Routine?

I say if you are looking for a three day split to bulk up on then give legs there own day because the lower body is a great plae to add mass. Something like:

day1- chest,delts,tris
day2- legs
day3- back, bi's

or

day1- chest, back
day2- legs
day3- shoulders, arms

For shoulders there is no need to do millitary press and shoulder press on the same day, they are both frontal plane push exercise (shoulder abduction) and in my opinion is overkill.

If you are just starting out then a three day split is okay biut eventually you may want to think about switching to a 4 or 5 day split to get some more volume.

I hope that you aren't talking about 3 days in a row of training, defn throw some rest days in there between WOs, ans I totally agree with Pfunk, Legs MUST have their own day, they are to big of a muscle to be done at the end of your chest WO. I concurr that if you are looking for bulk, switching to a 4 day split may benefit your goals more so than 3.

gr81, what do you suggest for a 4 day split? Thanks

chest/tris
back/bis
quads/hams/calves
shoulders/arms

Not necessarily in that order or anything, I like that split though. It has worked for me, you can workout something different on shoulder day, I like training arms 2 a week though. what do you think

basically it looks the same as mine only a leg day and arms with shoulder. do you take 1 day in between or is this like a m-t-w-t with f,s,s off. should i stay with the same type and sets of lifts that i am doing now?

try 2 days on one day off, 2 days on two days off:

mon
tues
wed-rest
thurs
fri.
sat/sun-rest

p-funk- does this sound ok....MON. my chest & tris TUES. my back & bis WED. off THURS. legs FRI. my shoulders & arms SAT SUN off. (my meaning my routine from first thread) also I have been doing this since FEB. with only a 2 1/2 weeks off during summer. I have though always worked out just not consentantly So whe do I need to shock? and how on my routine? AND how many workouts in a row do you shock? Thanks for all your help.

gr81 when you do a second arm workout in your shoulder workout as stated above do you do the same lifts and reps as the previous or do you alter it? thanks

I alter it bro, I always change it up. I change up the exercises and I might have a dynamic WO instead. I will stick to some staple exercises like the b-bell curl b/c it is as close to a compound movement for the bis as it gets. It is important to show your body something different and recruit different muscle fibers with different rep schemes and such. You know you could literally train the same body part 2 days in a row and not be overtraining, if you did one WO very heavy and the next high rep and some different movements, different fibers and recruited. Even something like changing the tempo of you lifts are great for variety man, make sense?

do you do bis and tris on the 2nd workout day or only bis? so it is better to do a heavy low rep with back on 1st workout then maybe a light high rep or diff movements on WO with shoulders?