should workout even though muscles are sore

[StuckInBako]

My routine is as follows

Monday-Chest/Triceps
Tuesday-Back/Biceps
Weds-Off
Thurs-Delts/Traps/Lower Back/Light leg work out
Fri-off
Sat-off
Sun-off

My question is that sometimes when i get to my shoulders workout day they are still sore from doing bench press/back ect. is it ok to continue to workout that muscle group if there still sore from a few days before when they weren't being targeted.

 

[P-funk]

My routine is as follows

Monday-Chest/Triceps
Tuesday-Back/Biceps
Weds-Off
Thurs-Delts/Traps/Lower Back/Light leg work out
Fri-off
Sat-off
Sun-off

My question is that sometimes when i get to my shoulders workout day they are still sore from doing bench press/back ect. is it ok to continue to workout that muscle group if there still sore from a few days before when they weren't being targeted.

If your shoulders are still sore come thurs. then push them off until friday and let your upper body rest. That is a good excuse to turn that stupid light leg workout into a real training session.

 

[* Legion *]

If your shoulders are still sore come thurs. then push them off until friday and let your upper body rest. That is a good excuse to turn that stupid light leg workout into a real training session.

OMG! Funk, you're cranky. I think somebody needs a nap.

 

[P-funk]

not cranky. just honest.

 

[Nicky Carts]

am i the only one that thinks bakersfield should cut down on the off days and maybe move workouts to those days? just my opinion personally. obviously the workouts would have to be harder if u were to do that and designate 1 day for them but thats my two cents on this

 

[P-funk]

why should he cut down on the off days? Training three days a week is fine. You grow outside of the gym, not in it.

 

[Nicky Carts]

reason i say that is cause it looks like alot of shit is goin on on thurs. if he were to move some of that onto another day he could do a hard workout for one or two of those areas and tear up the muscle more. only reason i could see myself doing such a workout would be if i was doing full body. u probly do know more than me but lemme know what you think

 

[P-funk]

I don't think that thurs is bad. I don't think that training only three days a week is bad either. If he is going to keep to three days a week he may be better off putting shoulders in with chest and training legs on there own. Or, like you said, move shoulders to friday and train legs on thurs.

 

[swordfish]

bakersfield, where is your heavy leg workout

 

[Cowbell]

I would change to a MWF routine....biceps and triceps together and chest and back together...hurt more when you are done but you wont be too sore to work other parts and gives you a whole week to recover

 

[StuckInBako]

i only do a light leg workout because i don't have the equipment to do alot of different excerises. I work out at my buddies house and he has a alot of free weights,a bench,a rack for squats and also has a cable machine. i have a lot of off days because i work 6 days on and 3 off and don't always have the energy to work out after working a 12 hrs shift. How does my routine look for what i have to work with.

My workout is as follows until i change it up

Chest
3 sets db press
3 sets db incline press
3 sets pullovers
3 sets incline flies,

Triceps
3 sets pushdowns
3 sets db extionions(the ones where you come across your face)
3 sets flat bench dips or overhead cable extionions

Biceps
3 sets alternating curls
3 sets preacher curls
3 sets hammer curls

Back
2 sets lat pulldowns (in front of body)
2 sets lat pulldown (behind neck)
3 sets cable rows
3 sets bent over bb rows
3 sets db rows

Delts
3 sets arnold presses
3 sets side laterals raises
3 sets laterals raises

Traps
2 sets db shrugs (db's in front of body)
2 sets db shrugs(db at sides)
lower back
3 sets stiff legged dead lifts

Legs
3 sets squats
3 sets dead lifts

 

[kicka19]

id cut down on the bicep work do 1 or maybe 2 sets, not 3, they get indirectly targeted anyways

 

[Squaggleboggin]

If he has a rack for squats, what else do you need? Just do ATG squats with maximal weights and that's surely a good leg day IMO.

 

[mr_oo3]

Have a bloody leg day. What the hell is a 'light leg day'?

I'd put lunges in on the leg day too.

 

[HardTrainer]

I would change to a MWF routine....biceps and triceps together and chest and back together...hurt more when you are done but you wont be too sore to work other parts and gives you a whole week to recover

Training arms on thier own day and chest on its own day would mean you train shoulder on its own day too?

So from that you will be training triceps 3 times a week, some from shoulder pressing on delt day and a LOT from chest day.

Also biceps twice a week from doing back separate (biceps mostly fail before back unless you can mentally tell them to not work , as some claim )

Also delts overlap with benching and incline benching (incline bench is inbetween a seated shoulder press and a flat bench so yes your delts get a very good workout)

While on paper it looks all nice and separated because arm day is arm day! and shoulder day is shoulder day!,so therefore arms, etc.. don't get trained to next week right? well no as the many movements on other days greatly involve those muscles..... so its not allowing a whole week to recover.

 

[StuckInBako]

i'm going to go with a mwf routine but keep the same muscles grouped together
Chest/Tri's
Back/Bi's
Shoulders/Traps/lower back/legs

if someone was to train back and chest together that would make for a really long workout,wouldn't it? i usually do about 12 sets for chest and 12-13 for back.