Thread: Does bodypart workout order matter?

Well you should start with a major body part like chest or back and leave legs for the middle b/c it rests your upper body. You also want to remember that when working chest you also hit your tri's secondary and when workin back you hit your bi's secondary. So you want to make sure you have sufficient rest time in between sessions.

My current split is
chest/shoulders
rest
legs
rest
back
arms
rest

There are a large number of possibel splits that have worked for many people. Just try various splits out and see which one you prefer/works better for you. I like my current split the best so far:

Chest, Shoulders
Back
Rest
Arms
Legs
Rest
Rest

Well the way I have it now it's:
Chest/Shoulder/tri
rest
Back/bi
rest
Leg/abs
rest
rest

But I was thinking, since leg training, and squats in particular, releases the most growth hormone, would it make a difference switching the Leg and Chest days around. So, would the rest of the week's training benefit from the increased hormone levels, or is it a relatively short spike and doesn't last long enough to really help?

yes it matters.

example: if you trained back today you would not want to do legs tomorrow, especially if you're going to do squats. or even the reverse, if you train legs today, back would not be a good choice for tomorrow's work-out.

Prince can you explain in further detail? Is back also a big hormone releaser or something?

my split goes
tues- legs
wed- chest/bi's
fri- shoulders
sun- back/tris

this way i get a good day off before i do legs so i can hit them really hard with having a rest day from my back day(which i do deadlifts on) while hitting up chest/bi's the next day ( a day when my legs get no workout from the weights that i am doing

Originally posted by JoeR.
Prince can you explain in further detail? Is back also a big hormone releaser or something?

It can be, if you do a movement like deadlifts, but that is not why I said that.

When you squat it's a full body movement and there is a lot of back involvement. Example, I did squats today and after 5 sets my lower back was almost shot. I could not imagine training back tomorrow after that leg work-out I had today.

Some poeple train shoulders on a seaprate day from chest, if that is the case you certainly would not want to work chest the day after shoulders because shoulders have a lot of involvement in chest movements.

Oh yea I wasnt even thinking, pre-exhuastion.