Pairing Back and Legs in one workout

[Skyliner]

I'm curious to know that has anyone tried training your Back and Legs on the very same workout and achieve good results through it? I was think of it and came up with a little sample workout, please take a look.

1) Chin Ups: 3 sets
2) Rows: 3 Sets
3) Sumo Deadlifts: 3 Sets
4) SLDL: 3 Sets
5) Leg Press: 3 Sets

There you go, 15 sets in total, and a good selection of exercises that will hit both Back an Legs very nicely, w/o causing too much 'destruction'. What do you think about it?

BTW, this is especially for someone like me who's gym has no bloody Squat Rack.

 

[Arnold]

I would not just because your back and legs are the two largest muscle groups, and it would be too exhausting.

 

[Scotty the Body]

Yeah, I don't know how good your workout will be, if your gonna try it, I'd leave the chins and rows till last as they're probably the easiest of all.

 

[Duncan]

Currently, I work back and hammies together and have had some success. Below is my workout


SLDLs 4 sets
Lat Pulldowns 4 sets
Barbell Rows 4 sets
Seated Leg Curl 4 sets
Lying leg Curl 4 sets
Roman Chair 3 sets

This is alot of sets, but my back only responds to a higher volume. I do this on Monday and don't do quads until Thursday so that my back is ready for squats. I agree that you should put any deads you do at the beginning of the workout so that you are fresh for them.

 

[Robboe]

If i was to do them together i'd do back first, purely because by the time i'm done with legs i can barely string a sentence together, let alone put intensity into my back.After doing back i'm not as capoot.

 

[Scotty the Body]

Yeah, thats true to TCD, I don't think I'd have a good workout no matter what order I did them in.

 

[Robboe]

Well it depends actually. If you were doing an all over body split say once every 5 days then maybe it wouldn;t be so bad -purely because all over splits tend to only use 1 exercise directly per bodypart eg

Bench
row
chin
OH press
squat
deadlift

(all for 1-2 sets)

I could manage that, but i'd still be screwed at the end of it.

 

[#1 stunner]

yikes, i dont think i would be able to walk for days. I do legs on tuesday and they are still hurtin when i do deads on friday