Is this better?

[sol]

I've always been a fan of working out one muscle group per day. The idea is to go in and lift, ballz to the wall for 45 or so min. Here's what I'm thinking:

Day1: Legs
Day2: Rest
Day3: Chest
Day4: Back/Abs
Day5: Tris
Day6: Rest
Day7: Shoulders/Traps
Day8: Bis

I'll go in each day with 3 different workouts for each muscle group and 3 sets per workout of 6-8 reps. I start at 6 reps with the heaviest weight I can move then lower the weight to where I can stay within the 6-8 range for each consequitive set. This applies to all workouts except for legs and calves. Legs I'll probably do about 5 sets of 6-8, and calves...hell, I'll just wail the hell out of em. So, how does this look guys?

[sol]

bump!

[Hypertrophy]

I've always been a fan of working out one muscle group per day. The idea is to go in and lift, ballz to the wall for 45 or so min. Here's what I'm thinking:

Day1: Legs
Day2: Rest
Day3: Chest
Day4: Back/Abs
Day5: Tris
Day6: Rest
Day7: Shoulders/Traps
Day8: Bis

I'll go in each day with 3 different workouts for each muscle group and 3 sets per workout of 6-8 reps. I start at 6 reps with the heaviest weight I can move then lower the weight to where I can stay within the 6-8 range for each consequitive set. This applies to all workouts except for legs and calves. Legs I'll probably do about 5 sets of 6-8, and calves...hell, I'll just wail the hell out of em. So, how does this look guys?

I think it is too spread out. No need for a bicep only day. Either do them in a back/bi, chest/tri fashion, or back/tri, chest/bi fashion or have an arm day. How many total sets for each muscle group are you doing? Just wondering since you are allowing 8-9 days of recovery~

[sol]

I think it is too spread out. No need for a bicep only day. Either do them in a back/bi, chest/tri fashion, or back/tri, chest/bi fashion or have an arm day. How many total sets for each muscle group are you doing? Just wondering since you are allowing 8-9 days of recovery~

It goes like this: each muscle group gets a total of 9 sets, spread out between 3 different exercises. However, legs gets 5 sets of squats and 4 sets of lunges, or 3 sets of squats, 3 sets of leg ext, and 3 sets of leg curls.

Now, the reason I'm interested in the one muscle group per workout routine, is because if I were to workout more than one muscle group in a workout, I wouldn't have as much energy to put forth in the last half as in the first half. Correct me if I'm wrong, but every consequtive set past the first causes your body to lose more and more energy, therefore the last half of the workout would be much less quality than the first half. This is my philosophy on lifting. Do you think the loss of energy isn't significant enough to really matter?

[ReX357]

Try my split:

Legs
Off
Chest
Back
Off
Shoulders/Traps
Bis/Tris/Forearms
Off

[brew035]

I've always been a fan of working out one muscle group per day. The idea is to go in and lift, ballz to the wall for 45 or so min. Here's what I'm thinking:

Day1: Legs
Day2: Rest
Day3: Chest
Day4: Back/Abs
Day5: Tris
Day6: Rest
Day7: Shoulders/Traps
Day8: Bis

I'll go in each day with 3 different workouts for each muscle group and 3 sets per workout of 6-8 reps. I start at 6 reps with the heaviest weight I can move then lower the weight to where I can stay within the 6-8 range for each consequitive set. This applies to all workouts except for legs and calves. Legs I'll probably do about 5 sets of 6-8, and calves...hell, I'll just wail the hell out of em. So, how does this look guys?

Move tris to day 6 and rest to day 5. I would never do this split. It just looks kinda funny maybe under training.

[sol]

Move tris to day 6 and rest to day 5. I would never do this split. It just looks kinda funny maybe under training.

Okay, I'm assuming that the reason for moving tris to day 6 would give my tris more time to recoperate? But...kinda funny though??? So, maybe I should work out my muscle groups once every 6 days as opposed to ever 7 days?

[brew035]

I've always been a fan of working out one muscle group per day. The idea is to go in and lift, ballz to the wall for 45 or so min. Here's what I'm thinking:

Day1: Legs
Day2: Rest
Day3: Chest/tri
Day4: Back/bi/Abs
Day5: Tris off
Day6: Rest shoulders/trap
Day7: Shoulders/Traps off
There is not 8 days!!!

I'll go in each day with 3 different workouts for each muscle group and 3 sets per workout of 6-8 reps. I start at 6 reps with the heaviest weight I can move then lower the weight to where I can stay within the 6-8 range for each consequitive set. This applies to all workouts except for legs and calves. Legs I'll probably do about 5 sets of 6-8, and calves...hell, I'll just wail the hell out of em. So, how does this look guys?

just relized that you had down eight days. How did you come up with that?
Try what I did in bold it will work better and give you more play time.

[brew035]

It goes like this: each muscle group gets a total of 9 sets, spread out between 3 different exercises. However, legs gets 5 sets of squats and 4 sets of lunges, or 3 sets of squats, 3 sets of leg ext, and 3 sets of leg curls.

Now, the reason I'm interested in the one muscle group per workout routine, is because if I were to workout more than one muscle group in a workout, I wouldn't have as much energy to put forth in the last half as in the first half. Correct me if I'm wrong, but every consequtive set past the first causes your body to lose more and more energy, therefore the last half of the workout would be much less quality than the first half. This is my philosophy on lifting. Do you think the loss of energy isn't significant enough to really matter?

Thats the idea. That is also why you do you big lifts first like deads bench squats and so on. If you are eating good you should have enough energy to be able to overtrain. Eat more carbs if you are laking energy.
Dont try not to workout hard. Like I said you could be undertraining.

[sol]

just relized that you had down eight days. How did you come up with that?
Try what I did in bold it will work better and give you more play time.

Uhmm woops. Sorry about that. I'm not sure where that came from...maybe it's because I failed 2nd grade math. Anyway, I do like the idea of having a third day off. But just to clarify, you think that the overall benefit of having two days where I work out two muscles at a time (not counting traps and shoulders) is more than if I didn't mix two muscles at a time. If so, can you explain why? Thanks a lot.

[brew035]

O.k. here we go.
Chest/Tris: When you work out your chest it warming up your tris. Since this is happening why not go ahead and workout your tris.
Back/Bis: The same thing applies here back warms up bis.

When hitting the bis and tris just go for heavy compound movements. 3 sets for each with the reps like this 10,8,6 or 8,6,4 depending on how heavy you want to go.

Its not going to take much to kill your tris and bis after chest and back. Doing it this way makes it easier to not overtrain. Hope this helps.

[sol]

I appreciate your time, man. That's some good reasoning; I'll give it a try.

[ReX357]

I personally gain more with a 8 days cycle. I like to have plenty of rest.

[needmorestrength]

Follow Brew's training cycle. That looks better

[Jantzen4k]

I think it is too spread out. No need for a bicep only day. Either do them in a back/bi, chest/tri fashion, or back/tri, chest/bi fashion or have an arm day. How many total sets for each muscle group are you doing? Just wondering since you are allowing 8-9 days of recovery~

i agree