3 day, 1 day off. Workout routine. On cycle?

[musclehealth]

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Im planning on switching up my workout for my upcoming cycle. I was doing the traditional 5 day a week (mon-fri) single muscle each day. Chest, back, legs, arms, sholders/traps. Im planning on changing it up a bit but am not sure if a 3 day on 1 day off would work for me.

All workouts are 6-8 reps. (some 10)
Day-1 Chest/TRI
Day-2 Back bi's
Day-3 Legs/sholders
Day-4 Off
Day-5 Chest/TRI
Day-6 Back bi's
Day-7 Legs/sholders
Day-8 Off
....
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What do you guys think? Im looking to put on mass (strictly bulking). If it makes any difference I will be on my cycle (test, dbol). Bulking for a show in spring then will do some cutting.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Personally I think that would work better than a 5 day routine simply because you're hitting the muscles more frequently. I train 3 on/1 off natural so on cycle you should blow up off that just fine. Don't be afraid to eat.

 

[musclehealth]

Ill do it off cycle to see how things go. What about length of the workouts tho? It will get kinda long I would think.

 

[sweed]

im on a 3 day on 1 day off... i like it

 

[LftHndPwrHouse]

Go for it brother...Thats what i just switched to..I follow the same rutine you do. 5 when off and 3 on 1 off when ON. I recover faster and i want to hit each muscle as much as possible when im on.

 

[musclehealth]

do the muscles get enough attention on the day tho?

 

[bigtravis]

sounds good. i'd still be sure to get plenty of rest with that one.

 

[LftHndPwrHouse]

do the muscles get enough attention on the day tho?

You mean how hard your train them with the 3 on 1 off method?

Hell ya...I train hardcore no matter what. I make sure i get 8 hours of sleep.
I always feel great i dont feel tired or over trained

 

[WannaBeBig72]

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Im planning on switching up my workout for my upcoming cycle. I was doing the traditional 5 day a week (mon-fri) single muscle each day. Chest, back, legs, arms, sholders/traps. Im planning on changing it up a bit but am not sure if a 3 day on 1 day off would work for me.

All workouts are 6-8 reps. (some 10)
Day-1 Chest/TRI
Day-2 Back bi's
Day-3 Legs/sholders
Day-4 Off
Day-5 Chest/TRI
Day-6 Back bi's
Day-7 Legs/sholders
Day-8 Off
....
....

What do you guys think? Im looking to put on mass (strictly bulking). If it makes any difference I will be on my cycle (test, dbol). Bulking for a show in spring then will do some cutting.

What would your leg/shoulder workout be? I'm thinking about switching to the exact same thing but doing legs and shoulders in the same day seem kind of tough. Are all your workouts limited to an hour?

 

[musclehealth]

What would your leg/shoulder workout be? I'm thinking about switching to the exact same thing but doing legs and shoulders in the same day seem kind of tough. Are all your workouts limited to an hour?

I was thinking the same thing. Sholders and legs take so fucking long. Putting them together might be a little time consuming. Maybe I can have seperate days for them.

 

[musclehealth]

something like...

Day-1 Chest/TRI
Day-2 Back bi's
Day-3 Legs
Day-4 sholders
Day off

Thats not that far off from the 5 day tho. I guess my sholder and leg workouts will be long as hell. I usually dont go over an hour.

 

[bluehen]

something like...

Day-1 Chest/TRI
Day-2 Back bi's
Day-3 Legs
Day-4 sholders
Day off

Thats not that far off from the 5 day tho. I guess my sholder and leg workouts will be long as hell. I usually dont go over an hour.

You should split your training up. If you train 4 or 5 days in a row, no matter how much juice you are on, your nervous system can not recover. If you train 5 days a week get a rest day in the middle of the week instead of taking both weekend days off.

 

[WannaBeBig72]

something like...

Day-1 Chest/TRI
Day-2 Back bi's
Day-3 Legs
Day-4 sholders
Day off

Thats not that far off from the 5 day tho. I guess my sholder and leg workouts will be long as hell. I usually dont go over an hour.

I mean I guess you could get away with 4 sets of squats and 4 sets of deadlifts (plus one warmup). As long as each set was to failure. And then about 14 sets of shoulders and traps. This would probably not long much more then an hour.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

This might be an idea for your leg and shoulder workout.

Do 5x5 on squats. Warmup with 5, 5 rep warmup sets that each increase in weight. Then do 5x5 on your top set. Inbetween sets of squats do 5 reps glute/Ham Raise or 5 reps leg curl. That's 50 reps for quads and 50 for hams. BAM! Your quads, glutes and hams are taken care of.

Shoulders? How about a simple press for 5x5 pyramid where the 5th set is your heaviest and top set. Then 3x10-12 on laterals and same for rear laterals. BAM! Shoulders taken care of.

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