Routine Advice

[LJ76]

My routine has grown kind of stale and unproductive so I'm going to try something new and different. I plan to do the following

1 - Chest/Tris
2 - Legs/shoulders
3 - Back/Bis


I can't decide if I want to do 3 days in a row on, 2 off,
or do it like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and take the weekend off in addition to Tuesday and Thursday. Can anyone give me some opinions on which would be best? Thanks

 

[Lord_Suston]

you can do every other day, so you don't get that long gap on the weekends. I usually do 2 days on 1 day rest with that kind of split....

 

[lemur]

if you are going to squat on leg day and deadlift on back day, i would recommend splitting them up so that you have at least 2 days in between back and legs. ex:

tuesday:legs/delt

thursday: chest/tri

saturday:back/bi

this is probably a pretty crappy example, but you get the idea.

 

[Lord_Suston]

lemur got the right idea but you want your shoulders to be fresh when you do chest and tris because they stabalize a lot of the excercises that you will be doing.
Try this:
Back/ bis day 1
Chest/tris day 3
legs/delts day 5

in between each day take a rest day or do some cardio when you feel you are getting too much rest then change the amount of rest days if you feel....

 

[JOKER47]

if you are going to squat on leg day and deadlift on back day, i would recommend splitting them up so that you have at least 2 days in between back and legs. ex:

tuesday:legs/delt

thursday: chest/tri

saturday:back/bi

this is probably a pretty crappy example, but you get the idea.

That's good advice. I posted my routine some time back, and someone told me the same thing. I took their advice and it has made leg day much more productive. (My leg day came after back/bi day.)

.02,
Joker