overtraining?

[RCfootball87]

i am wondering if i am overtraining. i usually workout 5 days a week, here's and example of the workout i did yesterday:
upper body
flat barbell bench 3 sets 5 reps
curls 3 sets 10 reps
shrugs 3 sets 15 reps
lat pulls 3 sets 10 reps
sit ups 3 sets 25 reps
decline dumbell presses 3 sets 10 reps
forearm curls 3 sets 15 reps each arm.

i usually do a workout out like that for upper body one day, and then do a lower body workout kinda like that the next, and the upper, then lower, i keep rotating. and i take saturday and sunday off. is this too much? should i get a new split? what are your workouts?

 

[Arnold]

I hit each muscle once every 5-7 days.

I never work more than 2 muscle groups in one work-out, e.g. chest & bi's.

 

[sandwich]

yep...train each muscle no more than twice aweek max!...imo

 

[blond bomber]

I say that as long as you are seeing gains, do what you've been doing. But, if you have hit a plateau, try going less. I myself gained a hundred pounds in 3/4 a year (my first year) working out 5, sometimes even 6 times a week. Then, I hit a 3 month plateau! Desperate, I lowered my workouts to around 3 a week. And guess what...I started going up again.

 

[Lightman009]

You gained 100 pounds in 3/4 of a year?

 

[KataMaStEr]

Nope that don???t seem like overstraining. I think is much harder to overtrain than most of the people think it is IMO. My coach makes us do a pretty damn hard workout and I???m still making gains.

*** Hey RC did you make up that workout or did your coach gave it to you?

 

[KataMaStEr]

A 100lbs in 8 months man, are you for real? Seems prity damn unbelievable to me...

 

[sandwich]

hmmm ...your muscle needs to rebuild thru rest/nutrition, not giving it any time to do this will stop growth...even degress.

 

[KataMaStEr]

Yes I agree but not many people I know off work hard enought to overtrain.

 

[Lightman009]

What consists of upper body or lower body for you? You should only be hitting each muscle group once a week, except abs, which can be done 2-3 times a week.

 

[Monolith]

Originally posted by Lightman009
What consists of upper body or lower body for you? You should only be hitting each muscle group once a week, except abs, which can be done 2-3 times a week.

cant calves be done just as frequently as abs?

 

[Scotty the Body]

Yes, calves can also be done more often, I'd still keep both to no more than twice a week, they still need time to recover.

 

[RCfootball87]

Originally posted by KataMaStEr
Nope that don???t seem like overstraining. I think is much harder to overtrain than most of the people think it is IMO. My coach makes us do a pretty damn hard workout and I???m still making gains.

*** Hey RC did you make up that workout or did your coach gave it to you?

i kinda pulled this workout out of my ass, but im doing a new one now. its one from one of the "muscletech body transformation" challenge things. i took a look at there recomended workout and figured it looked good for me. hold on ill get it up soon

 

[RCfootball87]

new workout

ok i got it up, its in the training section under "THE NEW WORKOUT!"

 

[Scotty the Body]

Originally posted by RCfootball87
I'm doing a new one now. its one from one of the "muscletech body transformation"

Ok, that explains your workout on that other thread, you know you have to take Muscletech products for that to work!

J/K, most of the routines in the mags are a joke.

 

[Lightman009]

Yeah calves can also recover pretty quickly and can be worked more then once a week.

 

[KataMaStEr]

Originally posted by RCfootball87
i kinda pulled this workout out of my ass, but im doing a new one now. its one from one of the "muscletech body transformation" challenge things. i took a look at there recomended workout and figured it looked good for me. hold on ill get it up soon

What about if you ask your coach to make up a football weight lifting routine for you, I'm sure he'll be happy to healp!

 

[RCfootball87]

coaches routines

Originally posted by KataMaStEr
What about if you ask your coach to make up a football weight lifting routine for you, I'm sure he'll be happy to healp!

yeah i dont like most of his though, and he puts everyone on the same ones at the same time, so everyone wants the same machines, its a problem.