How many times a week do you work out?

**Rugby13** · 10-30-2002, 07:22 PM

How many times a week do you work out? And how do you split it up? I'm doing it 5 days a week:
Mon: Back
Tues: Chest
Wed: Off Day
Thurs: Bi's
Fri: Legs
Sat: Shoulders and Tri's
Sun: Off Day

I'm doing a fina cycle now taking 75mg (5 days a week as well) on Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat, in the mornings...Only the days I work out.

**showtime** · 10-30-2002, 09:47 PM

i lift5 3 to 4 days a week
mon:tri's and tit's
tues:back and bi's
wed

ff day
thur:legs
fri: tri's and tits
take weekends off and go again on monday

**samoth** · 10-30-2002, 09:55 PM

Five to seven times per week, depending on how I feel, how much studying I have, and what I'm on at the time. Some people mentioned that I might be overtraining, but I get 8.5 hours of sleep per night and take in 6k calories per day... I think I'm the only person in the college who sleeps over 5 hours a night

**Nathan** · 10-30-2002, 10:43 PM

What like lift weights and stuff? Once every 3 weeks roughyl. I don't like getting all sweaty and smelly. It's gross really.

**Tapout** · 10-30-2002, 11:11 PM

i started 3 days per week almost 2 years ago and put on alot of size. went from 220 area (stalled there after years of training) to 245 now.
i do
monday---chest/shoulders/tris
wednesday---back/traps/bis
friday---legs

i train real heavy and intense ---i also feel like training like this i train harder.
reason
instead of saying man i got to train again and not wanting to go to gym i cant wait to train cause been a couple of days. this way i hit it harder and i think in my mind every time i train i grow

**Warrior** · 10-31-2002, 01:46 AM

A lot.

**Red5** · 10-31-2002, 08:05 AM

3-4 depending on if i can find the time
Mon-Chest, Shoulders
Wed-Back, Traps
Fri-Legs, Arms
Or
Mon-Chest
Tue-Back
Thur-Shoulders
Fri-Legs, Arms

***Pheedno*** · 10-31-2002, 09:36 AM

No less than 5 and always 1 day off.
My current split(I switch it up every month):
Mon-Chest/Tris
Tues-Back/Forearms
Wed-Quads/calves
Thurs-Hams/Bis
Fri-Shoulders/Forearms

Incorporate abs on diff. days(still don't do them as much as I should)

**David B.** · 10-31-2002, 09:49 AM

Sun - legs
Mon - back, rear delts, traps
Tues - chest, shoulders
Wed - arms

Guess I should explain the shoulder split -- I do "pull" shoulder exercises on back day, and "push" on chest day. Makes it a lot easier on my injury-prone shoulders.

And on arm day I throw in some calves and some ab work.

--dnb

**Warrior** · 10-31-2002, 01:35 PM

Alternating Heavy (hypertrophy), medium (hypertophy and strength) and light (strength). Depending on the bodypart, Heavy days get 5-6 days of rest, Medium days get 4-5, and light get 3-4.

Heavy is Wholistic training useing giant-sets super seted for one HUGE set. First set is heavy for 2-3 reps followed by a shaping movement for 10-12 then a fiishing movement for 40 reps. Then repeated. For Exa,ple a chest day would be Bench Press for 2-3 reps... run over to Dumbell Press for 10-12... then run over to cross-overs for 40 then run back over to bench press again and repeat it all over again...

Medium is basic POF split. A compound movement pyramid set followed by a basic shaping and contraction movement and then a finishing movement. Sometimes working in drop sets.

Light is a GVT style strength day. A basic 10 sets of 10 reps. Sometimes I do 10 sets of less reps (like 10 sets of 5 reps). GVT days are a good way to monitor srength gains.

This is a pretty complicated split

Not a Back on Monday, Tris on Tuesday type. I plan to run it another 6 weeks or so... it's tailored for my uncanny rise of androgens and my current abnormal anabolic situation

**WorkingOnIt** · 10-31-2002, 02:42 PM

6 days a week, 5 day rotation, off on Saturdays (still in college, need hangover recovery time)
Ex.
Sun - Shoulders & Traps
Mon - Legs
Tues - chest
Wed - Back
Thur - Arms
Fri - Start over with Shoulders and Traps

You think you guys could critique this for me, since in a couple weeks I'll be back on some gear and I was thinking about doing maybe two workouts in a day.
Thanks bros

**bulkmeUP** · 10-31-2002, 11:50 PM

4 days

mon - chest, tri's , shoulders
tues - legs, abs
wed - back, bi's
thurs - OFF
fri - repeat from monday
sat/sun - OFF

with each day getting a workout twice in a 3 week period.. days off vary

**Terinox** · 11-01-2002, 12:05 AM

5 days a week (and feeling good with this new routine)

monday - chest
tuesday - back
wednesday - arms
thursday - legs (currently injured

.)
friday - shoulders
sat/sun - off

This is something I started new over the summer, feels great working mon-fri. Before it was 3 days a week, but I find you put too much groups into one day, and feel too tired come the next exercise. One muscle group a day is perfect!!!

**hammerhead** · 11-02-2002, 06:59 AM

In maintenance mode: every-other-day alternating between upper body/lower body - on each workout I pick one muscle to focus hard on.

In gaining mode:
Saturday - pecs, delts, ant delts, tri's, upper traps
Monday - legs and glutes
Wednesday - bi's, traps, lats, post delts, forearms

In bomb mode:
Sat - chest
Sun - thighs, butt
Mon - back, lats
Tue - shoulders, tri's
Wed - calves
Thur - arms
Fri - off

I use a hollistic training approach - I start off with light weights and use slow steady motion for high repetitions using prefect form - all strength. One or two sets and then i move the weight up and use good form and slow motions but when my muscles get tired at the end of the set I switch to power to shove up a few more. Then I bump the weights up again and use almost pure power sloppy form to shove up all the reps I can. The goal of the first few sets is to get more and more repetitions. The goal of the last few sets is to use heavier and heavier weights. It creates a balance of strength and power.