Thread: Is this overkill?

It is actually quite normal. Listen to your body though, it will scream about overtraining when you have it.
I like your quote about your legs. lol

Thanks, looking at all of these threads I thought it was taboo doing what I did. I only do it during the summer to get that dense look.
I take it easy on my legs if I do too much i get the pear look not fat but just out of porpurtion.

Thats straight. Just keep doing that.

You can do pretty much whatever you want with your training. If you progress then that is ok. It is the good thing about training is to find the right one for you. Experiment.
The only thing you can´t do is stop training for almost 15 weeks like some lazy guy that usually posts here.

Chest and back on the same day,... foreget that routine..! Your overtraining... I don't care how good you feel..!

Too damn much..!

Originally Posted by Vital Signs

Chest and back on the same day,... foreget that routine..! Your overtraining... I don't care how good you feel..!

Overtraining is very complex and has many symptoms. Maybe it is not good for his progress but I would not say overtraining.

Monday---Chest and Back
Tuesday----Shoulders, Bi's and Tri's
Wednesday----Legs
I repeat but go lighter...
Thursday----Chest and Back
Friday----Shoulders, Bi's and Tri's

well unless you are running some AAS I would have to say yes, this looks like too much to me. if you ae gonna go chest and back on the same day, why wouldn't you let yourself recover the next day, instead you have yourself pressing the next day. you do't grow in hte gym man, you grow when your body is recovering. its important to understand that. take it slow and do it one step at a time. training 5 days in a row is foolich IMO

Again I only do this in the summer for the sole purpose of getting cut and dense. I only do it in the summer for 3 months the rest of the year I do each body part once a week.
I see the difference in both exercises, when I work a body part once a week I see more mass than I do see definition.

Originally Posted by gr81

well unless you are running some AAS I would have to say yes, this looks like too much to me. if you ae gonna go chest and back on the same day, why wouldn't you let yourself recover the next day, instead you have yourself pressing the next day. you do't grow in hte gym man, you grow when your body is recovering. its important to understand that. take it slow and do it one step at a time. training 5 days in a row is foolich IMO

Have you ever tried it? I have been training since I was 15 and i'm 39 now. I have tried this for the past 2 years and see results. I guess I'm built different cause I don't feel tired except on fridays.

Originally Posted by solid10

I usually do this in the summer, and I do legs only once since they grow faster than my upper body.

Monday---Chest and Back
Tuesday----Shoulders, Bi's and Tri's
Wednesday----Legs
I repeat but go lighter...
Thursday----Chest and Back
Friday----Shoulders, Bi's and Tri's

you can do this but you need to lower the volume of each body part trained per session. example: you do 10 set of back total a week. so Monday you do 5 sets and Thursday another 5 working sets, etc. using different exercises...

Originally Posted by Vital Signs

Chest and back on the same day,... foreget that routine..! Your overtraining... I don't care how good you feel..!

Too damn much..!

LOL, last week I supersetted all chest and back and felt goooooooood!

Have you ever tried it? I have been training since I was 15 and i'm 39 now. I have tried this for the past 2 years and see results. I guess I'm built different cause I don't feel tired except on fridays.

why the hell would you ask for opinions and responses, and then when you get one you jump down that persons throat? makes alot of sense. I don't gove a fucc what you say, training 5 days in a row IS overtraining if you are drug free. how can you possibly recover with no rest time. Your CNS will be severly shot, and you are training BPs twice in the span of a few days with no recovery time. raising the volume every now and then is great, but to do it two years straight is not productive. and if it works so well for you then why the hell are you asking what we think of it. do you understand the biology of the human body. do you understand the process of hypertrophy at all? if you did then you would realize that recovery time IS vital, and without it you WILL NOT BUILD MUSCLE. its that simple. I am so god damm sicc of people asking Q's and then when they get a response that doesn't condone whatever crackppot theory they have, they act like a bitch about it. Its not just a question of feeling tired

5 days in a row will probably lead to overtraining, unless you are some type of genetic abnormality. Your progress will be good for a short time and then sputter to a standstill. Even genetic abnormalities progress better when their freakish bodies are given a day or so to synthesize additional tissue. Working out for 5 straight days is not a good idea, especially if you are doing high volume and/or high intensity style training.

agreed, two days in a row max for a natural lifter.

^ thank you

Oh and you are training body parts TWICE in that span with NO rest times? That's a really poorly construed workout imo.