Fresh routine

[whiteronniewannabe]

Hey guys

I havent been packing on much size and have recently addressed my eating (posted in diet section) and my training routine. I used to train everything once a week: Please critic this one - think this should be ok

Day 1 - Shoulders (12-14sets), Traps (7-8sets)
Day 2 - Back (14-16sets), Bis (9/10sets)
Day3 - Rest
Day 4 - Chest (14-16sets), Triceps (9/10ex)
Day 5 - Legs (16sets), Forearms
Day 6 - Rest
Day 7 - Repeat Day 1

I am trying to stimulate some growth - above everything will be trained every 6 days. I do not believe that I will be over training - I feel recovered after 5 days on bodyparts and have spread my body parts out well i believe.

Let me know what you guys think!

[FreeDOOM]

looks pretty good to me, I do 12 sets for arms, traps, abs, and for legs and back it is a little different because your not working just one set of muscle but many. I think you should try it out and see how it goes. do you take every set to failure or do you stop at the last rep you can do with out cheating. I think finding the balance between intensity and quantity is the hard part. For a while I lifted every set to failure and did 15-16 sets per body part and got now where. I feel that I was over training. Since then I have dropped the number of sets I perform for each bodypart to 12. I still train hard, I started keeping journal and am finally learning which weight I need to use for a particular exercise and have it fall within a certain rep range for failure. I always take the weight I am using to the last one I can do with out cheating. That way the next week, I know if I need to add or take off weight.

[whiteronniewannabe]

If im going to do a drop set then its failure, but in either case it is always failure with good form. I always keep track on my weights and every session try and either beat last time by a rep of increase the weight comparatively.

Im very anal about not overtraining yet again undertraining, however here I feel its been a good balance.

anyone else?

[ray0414]

never do shoulders at the beginning of the week, your only hurting your other workouts. if your trying to stimulate growth,do arms on a seperate day, so in 7 days your working out 5 days, and 2 days off.

[whiteronniewannabe]

Cheers ray, but thats what i used to do - i havent grown a great deal in a while. I felt, (and on consultation with some bbs and power lifters) that I was over training arms by doing them seperatley as well as doing a seperate workout for each muscle. I feel alot better for the above workout after about two weeks of doing it.

I supose its down to the old question of what works for one person doesnt always work for another.

Ill have to get the tape measure out and have a good measure up

[ray0414]

Cheers ray, but thats what i used to do - i havent grown a great deal in a while. I felt, (and on consultation with some bbs and power lifters) that I was over training arms by doing them seperatley as well as doing a seperate workout for each muscle. I feel alot better for the above workout after about two weeks of doing it.

I supose its down to the old question of what works for one person doesnt always work for another.

Ill have to get the tape measure out and have a good measure up

part of that is true, but its common knowledge that if u have a hard workout, it will effect your work out the next day, so u try to plan your workouts to give a muscle time to heal before working it again. if u get a good hard shoulder workout on monday, yoru back workout on tuesday SHOULD be hindered a lil bit and if its not, then your obviously not getting a good enough shoulder work out.

[whiteronniewannabe]

Good point - however, isnt that the case with everybody part. Its obvioulsy extremly hard to get an exact workout which will give 100% work on that particular body part - not least because there are so few true "isolation" exercises - especially for the big muscle groups.

my stats btw are:

Chest 45inches
Arms 16.75inches
waist 36inches
quads 26inches