I've been divided for years on this one. I love arm day; but it taxes your entire training split; following arm day, can't do chest, shoulder or back... well you can but you'll interrupt the recovery and little grow will occur... My best mass split: Day 1 morning: Chest- front shoulder 1 triceps 'heavy' exercise. evening: light tricepsDay 2 morning LegsDay 3 morning back - side delts 1 biceps'heavy' ex. evening: light bicepsDay 3 off. Biggest I've been was on this routine.
True. I'll usually do one "detail" oriented arms day (maybe Tuesday) & then a heavy arms day on Saturday & take Sunday off. Because of some back problems I don't go too crazy when it comes to back so I'll usually hit back after training arms on Tuesday. Seems to workour ok for now.
Same here, back problems tend to slow me down; herniated a disk 2 years ago and although it recovered, it still flares up once in a while...
Don't get me started on that. I've got a herniated L4 & L5. It flares up from time to time still. I've just learned to work around it. Basically no heavy squats, no heavy leg presses, & no heavy deadlifts. Now for legs & back it's lighter weight & higher reps.
Every Monday:3 sets ez-bar curls3 sets widegrip pushdowns3 sets preacher curls2 sets one arm pushdowns2 sets reverse one arm pushdown2 sets straight bar curl3 sets close grip bench1 set of hammer curls
overtrain much? sweet jesus!
Sciatica?
I do prefer to train bis and tris on the same day though. Just not super-setted. (maybe I should?)
Try it for a while and see whether it appeals psychologically and whether you think it's hitting the muscles better. Supersetting opposing muscles doesn't work for me.
Its not like I have NEVER supersetted. I just know it will be mostly a pump effect and Im trying to get more out of my workout than that. I think its good to occasionally throw in the mixxx. Sure.
whaddya mean ?heres what i am sayingstraight bar push downs warm upwarm upwork setwork setoverhead dumbell extensionwarm upwarm upwork set work setclose grip benchwarm upwarm upwaork set work setrope pull downs/cable curlsrpd burn outcc warm uprpd burn outcc warm uprpd burn outcc warm upbarbell curlswarm upwarm upwaorkj setwork setalt. dumbell curlswarm up warm upwork setwork setfront double bicep curlsburn outburn outburn outdone.