Whats your boys' training routines/splits look like?

Juice Bigalow

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Im a smaller guy trying to catch my underdeveloped chest to the rest of my body... split is as follows

Mon- chest, Tues- back, Wed-shoulders, Thurs-legs, Fri-Bis/Tris

Totally open to positive criticism.

Whats your splits/routines look like?
 
arms are optional....if you have a legging muscle (chest) do it instead of arms.... I went a whole year and a half without working out arms up until about a month ago.... I still don't workout tris tho only bis
 
arms are optional....if you have a legging muscle (chest) do it instead of arms.... I went a whole year and a half without working out arms up until about a month ago.... I still don't workout tris tho only bis

You dont think hitting chest on both mon and fris would be overtraining?
 
make sure your benching properly too close your eyes and focus on your pecs.... I see way too many people at the gym who do big weight but they have no chest....soo they are using there delts, back, traps and arms to lift.... I find its pretty easy to bench wrong and it takes a lot of focus imo... and do decline and incline... flatbench is a joke
 
we re all differant and need to find out what works

how many set s you do, how much you eat and sleep...genetics...all factor into the variable that is YOU
 
change it up... if you can put your whole weeks routine in one sentence you don't have variety!. throw a 'superset' in there or 'climb the rack'... your trying to be out of your comfort zone in the gym... new workout routine every 4-16 weeks... some change it weekly but idk not a fan.... also imo if your only doing three exercises you should throw in a 'small" muscle workout in each day... so big chest small tri's big back small bis.... I find 12 sets isn't a workout but that's cause I tried that and didn't see shit happen but that's just my opinion
 
are you suggesting something like chest/tris, back/bis, legs, shoulders/traps, rest, repeat?

your upper body proportion looks almost identical to mine so who knows maybe what works for you actually could work for me. I think the best results ive gotten thus far was doing the chest/tris, back/bis, legs, shoulders/traps rinse and repeat. My cousin does something similar and doesnt take any rest days and hes a friggin monster. But like i said my chest is definitely lagging behind everything else
 
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arms are optional....if you have a legging muscle (chest) do it instead of arms.... I went a whole year and a half without working out arms up until about a month ago.... I still don't workout tris tho only bis

I do bis only, my tris get worked out enough during the week. Check out 5/3/1 routine by Wendler. I got strong pretty quick. And I work my cock out ed.
 
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5/3/1 right now.
Mon squat
Tuesday bench
Wed off
Thurs deadlift
Fri standing OHP.

And accessory work after my core lift. My workout is customized to my weaknesses while focusing on building up my compound lifts. My accessory work is high volume right now.
Ex leg day:
4x5 barbell squats
4x20 hack squats or leg press
4x30 leg exts
4x15 leg curls or straight leg deads
Weighted situps
FUCK IT'S INTENSE!

Compliments of 3J btw...the workouts are customized to my weak points.

And if done right I don't believe flat bench is a joke...if done right you will see progress. But it is easy to do it wrong. Hitting incline and decline as well will help you progress.
 
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Here's my plan. I go on the week ends. Less idiots to deal with ha.

Thursday - legs/calves
Friday - chest/bis 30 min cardio
Saturday - back/tris 30 min cardio
Sunday - shoulders/abs 30 min cardio

Example of chest day
Bench 8 6 4 2 4 6 8 ( I start with 135 and work up to 315 then back down)
Incline dumb bell 3x6u
Cable flys 3x8
Single arm dumbbell flat bench 3x10
Preacher curls 3x12
Rope curls 3x10
Single arm curls 3x8
Dumbbell pull overs 3x12
Straigth bar curls 3x6

train hard and heavy
Squats and dead lifts are king!
And for fuck sake NO CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK!!!
KOOL YOU CAN CURL 135 2 times? How much can you squat pussy.


(The last comment are for those Guys who curl in the mirror with little chicken legs.)
 
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On cycle split looks like this:
Monday:legs
Tuesday:chest
Wednesday:back
Thursday:rest
Friday:shoulders,traps
Saturday:arms,forearms
Sunday:rest

Like said above there are plenty of variables but as far as training make sure to have a good mind muscle connection. Make the muscle work! Heavy movements don't necessarily mean your making the muscle work. I'm a fan of always mixing it up and never doing the same workout back to back. I'm also a huge believer in drop sets and supersets. Sometimes I'll pre exhaust doing cable and glue movements at the beginning of a workout then doing my presses. All depends on how I feel but I think the biggest thing is genetics and training when it comes to a lagging body part.
 
You dont think hitting chest on both mon and fris would be overtraining?

if thats so i have been over training for years. I hit every muscle group 2x ew split according to what i have worked the day before. depending on how im feeling i wil maybe fit an extra bi or calve workout. And there are those weeks where i feel like resting 2 days in a row to get a good recovery. But im a sedentary dude.
 
we re all differant and need to find out what works

how many set s you do, how much you eat and sleep...genetics...all factor into the variable that is YOU

^this

just remember that rome wasn't built in a day and for many it will take years to discover a routine and diet (unless you get some pro help) that really works best for you. 5/3/1 for exampleis certainly a potent workout and when used correctly can really help take you to the next level but you will still need to study your body to get the max out of it. i'm using the conjugate system and love it but it's not for everyone.
 
if thats so i have been over training for years. I hit every muscle group 2x ew split according to what i have worked the day before. depending on how im feeling i wil maybe fit an extra bi or calve workout. And there are those weeks where i feel like resting 2 days in a row to get a good recovery. But im a sedentary dude.

overtraining is different for everyone. i warmup full body with bodyweight every morning and night 30 minutes or so. during that time i do 100+ reps each exercise x 5 to hit the whole body and core plus some cardio from sprints usually. i am always increasing the difficulty of the exercise or the number of reps per set and or total sets. pushups are handstand. pull ups are weighted muscle ups. shit like that.

my regular workout takes about 2 hours i don't rest much and as a base i hit the major lifts full body low weight for high reps high sets. for example bench is 265 for 15 sets of at least 10 reps. i do everything twice a day almost all of the time, from 7-9am and from around 8-10pm my quote unquote split goes like this:

mon:upper body very high volume
tue: lower body very high volume
wed: extra cardio and core
thur: upper body high weight lower volume
fri: lower body high weight lower volume

on the weekends i'm usually at public parks doing bodyweight workouts on bars with other bodyweight and plyometric stuff and playing sports. usually 5+ hours both sat and sun.

i take a day off once in a long ass while and usually not so much by choice.
this is how i train when i'm not actively playing a professional sport where my training is more or less controlled by outside parties. although the warmups and stuff like that i been doing every day for probably 10 or so years.
 
I was getting decent results natty with

sun-chest
mon-back
tues-abs/cardio
wed-legs/shouldrs
thurs-arms
fri-abs/cardio
sat-rest

But I don't think the split matters nearly as much as what exercises you're doing and how you're doing them. I mix my shit up every week. That has a lot to do with progress.

As far as routine goes, the only routine I have is being consistent. A lot of my work outs look similar, but they are never exactly the same.
 
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being euro tash I m raised under the decimal sysytem...

get a calender and instead of looking at weeks look at 10 day training cycles, ie, do every body part 2 in 10 days..

when I m not reeling from an injury or my latest surgery I do 1 big one and 1 little one every hour in the gym

big ones are chest back legs

and I ll add on a lil one like bi s tri, claves traps forerams

Also

Big ones get 12 working sets sets max
lil ones 6-9

dont forget the most important one of all...the heart..I do 30-60 minutes low intensity aerobics every day in the gym..walk at 3 mph at half the incline etc
 
I try to only do two body parts per work out. So I can really leave the gym completely dead tired. If I can lift 5 pounds with my biceps when leaving the gym I have not trained hard enough. I basically try to go as far as humanly possible. I usually think to myself about something I heard in a dorian yates work out interview. That he would go all out on just 2 sets and that was it. And the guy interviewing him said dorian yates going all out was way different than the normal person because Dorian had more fire in him and really put every single fiber and cell into his work out. So I try to let that piss me off and I think to myself if I can go as hard as possible to where I can not even move my muscles any more and are past the point of failure I have done my job.

But I will say when it comes to legs some times I have a problem going as far as humanly possible because it gets so fucking painful. And when I still have one more rep and I give up I feel like I ruined the entire work out. But their is no better feeling to me than knowing that I went 110% all out and that I couldn't budge the weight another centimeter. Basically to answer the original post. I work out my muscles in a spit that allows me to dedicate 110% capacity to each muscle group I work out. So some times I have to switch it up and dedicate a entire work out just to biceps or triceps. Because I feel that's the best way to really grow. When I do a crazy work out like that though I try to take in like 60 grams of hydrolyzed protein afterwords with a lot of sugar and than eat something like a steak a hour and a half later. I answered the question oddly sorry.
 
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