I work out 5 days a week. Monday, Wed, Fri I workout my entire upper body, Tuesday and Thursday I workout legs. Am I overworking my upper body muscles?
I work out 5 days a week. Monday, Wed, Fri I workout my entire upper body, Tuesday and Thursday I workout legs. Am I overworking my upper body muscles?
Sorry OP I got that all wrong my first comment. Three days a week for any specific body part is too much if you are working hard to failure. You should put a schedule together and spilt it up so you work different body part twice a week. Split you upper and lower . I never work my entire upper body in one day. Chest and Bi's or chest and triceps . Back and bi's , shoulders and other etc,... ...crazy mike
Last edited by crazy mike; 09-15-2013 at 07:21 PM.
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Ok mike just let me know. Hope it's not to bad bro
What is your goal?Originally Posted by strunes
Working the same body parts out more then once a week is fine, but the percentage of max effort needs to drop way down.
I normally do this or something of this.
1) chest/tri
2) legs
3) shoulders/traps
4) back/bis
5) legs again
Not much time for recovery with what you have set up right now. You might even be better off doing a full body workout 3x a week.
I'm running 200mg of T cyp a week and feeling pretty darn good. I was just wondering if I tried something different, if I would see better results and gain strenght?
Ok , First 200mg of test, if for a cycle to gain size and strength is not much. Why not 500mgs week. Also if you induce Test which you ate you will most probably feel better all together.
To accomplish more gains you will need to increase you intensity but not in over training. IMOP you need to split the routine. No more than 2 muscle groups a day. Or two on one off, or 3 on and one off. You need to train a body part no more than 2 times a week. Do your sets to failure using mostly lower reps and heavy. But mix with declining weight and increased reps. Giant sets 3-4 exercises 4-6, or 6-8
reps till failure.
Use your mind control with your muscle thinking about each rep, a positive and negative.
But not to teach you how to train here, you must split it up to get the intensity. Train smarter and harder, don't through the weight, use the weight and feel your movement. ...crazy mike
Yeh this.I do ;
Mon= legs
Tue= back & shoulders
Wednesday= lats & biceps
Thurs= chest and triceps
Fri= legs
Sat= off/if haven't got daughter then back & shoulders
Sun= off/lats & biceps
I then rotate chest with a 2->1 basis of upper chest -> flat bench
And 2->1 with power->hypertrophy split.
I also prime every 12-16 weeks which is twice as long some people
This works for me..
But its all about self monitoring. I've gone from 13 stone to 17.7 stone Nd hours @ gym from 10 hours to 25hours to 5 hours. I've incorporated cardio then loads more cardio n now I do 5 minute warm ups 5 x a week.
Find out what works for you. Tweak it a bit.
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