workout schedule

Mon.- chest + shoulders

Tues.- off

Wens.- back, biceps, + forearms

Thurs.- off

Fri.- triceps + abs

Sat.- legs

Sun.- off


How does this workout schedule look?

you dedicate an entire day to triceps? you're prolly already working them quite a bit on chest/shoulder day if it involves presses of any kind... sure your body can recover from two tricep workouts a week?

other than that it looks fine

I might have to change that. Thanks for the reply.

I might have to change that. Thanks for the reply.

If you search for any of my old posts in this forum, you'll quickly discover that i'm a fervent proponent of not only drastically changing workouts every two months, but being very careful not to have to much homegeneity within one workout split.

For example, in your workout, you pair up bis and back, a common, and effective split. However, you do that day in and day out, and you could be asking for trouble. A) the bis are going to be VERY overloaded from putting in all that work on that day, and B) there are enough people who believe that the biceps need to be trained fresh from time to time as opposed to being worked after back, or at the end of a workout. The same holds true for delts and chest.

I'd give consideration to staggering the rest periods (it gives you the added bonus of having a different rest period for back and biceps as well...as they shouldn't be the same - biceps recuperate much faster) so that this doesn't occur.

I definately agree about what you posted BigGreen.

Currently i'm at 5'11'' 150 lbs.

Mon.- chest

-first week

-flat bench warmup set, sets follow as 10-8-6 increasing weight as I go down in reps
-incline bench 10-8-6 increasing weight
-3rd exercise is a variation

-second week

-flat bench 10-8-6 same as first week
-decline bench 10-8-6 increasing weight
-3rd exercise (variation)

-third week

-flat bench 10-8-6 same as previous weeks increasing weight
-chest incline using dumbells 10-8-6
-3rd exercise (variation)

-fourth week

-flat bench 10-8-6
-chest decline using dumbells 10-8-6
-3rd exercise (variation)

-fifth week
repeat wks. 1-4

How does this workout routine look for chest, I just started it.