Please Critique My New Splits...

[tzan]

.....Here it is:

Mon-Back/Bi's
Tues-Chest
Wed-Off
Thur-Legs
Fri-Shoulders/Tri's
Sat-Off
Sun-Off

What do you guys think of the muscles I've paired together and the order I've choosen to work them in?? Heres my old routine that I've had good sucess with and deffiantly recomend it for someone:

Mon-Chest/Front+Side Delts
Tues-Off
Wed-Back/Rear Delts
Thur-Legs
Fri-Bi's/Tri's
Sat-Off
Sun-Off

 

[lemur]

Looks pretty good, but how are you working chest? If you are doing things like bench for chest and overheads for delts your delts might not be recovered for chest day, etc.

 

[tzan]

Lemur- Thanks for the reply. To answer your question, since I do heavy incline and flat presses on chest day, and heavy rows and deadlifts on back day, I stick to light weight isolation movements on shoulder day(side, front, rear db raises).

Everyone else- Comon now, what do yall think??

 

[Ingram]

Personally I don't like the idea of working back/bi's and shoulder/tri's together; I've tried it myself and found it to be a pain in the ass.

I found my bi's were spent from training back before I even got to the Bicep isolation exercises. In my opinion putting these similar exercises together is overtraining. If doing 7 different bicep exercises all on one day is a bad idea why would a workload of 4 back and 3 bi exercises be any different. Same goes for Shoulder/tri’s, although tri’s play less of a part in training shoulders.

I prefer training opposite muscle groups, this way my Tri’s/Bi’s get hit twice per week once isolated and once as an assisting muscle.

This is how I’d personally run your split.

Mon-Chest
Tue-Legs
Wed-Back/Tri
Thur-Rest
Fri-Shoulders/Bi
Sat-Off
Sun-Off

My 2 cents,
Ingram