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Darth Biscuit

By Darth Biscuit,
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toldozer Veteran

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I just wish I could go workout. That's one of the reasons I hate this time of year. I missed last Friday, this Tuesday and yesterday due to parties and obviously the gym was closed yesterday...

I've been fighting a cold too so that's irritating me also...

I'm fighting something as well. Bout to chug some cold medicine take a hot shower then hit the gym. It's leg day, time to work.

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For those needing a good split for the week, I've found something that finally works well for me.

I lifted most in high school, due to football. For 4 years, the program never really changed. We'd add a thing here or there, but the format was the same. Compound lifts on MWF, and Tuesday and Thursday were more isolation exercises. Very seldom used machines, so mostly free weights.

Going to a gym where people are doing different things on different days, with limited equipment and only having a couple of times a day that you can possibly make it to the gym to begin with makes it hard to keep up with that same regiment that I did back then. Plus, it was more about muscle mass and power, less about function and looking good (which is my goal now).


I tried doing the 4 day split of chest/tri day, back/bi day, leg day, shoulder/ab day. I just never felt like I was doing enough volume. Very seldom got sore no matter how hard I went in the gym.

So, I decided to go to a more intense 3 day split. I order it based on movements. Basically, push day, pull day, and leg/core day (since most leg lifts use your core as the main stabilizer). Right now, I generally do it like this:


Monday: Chest/shoulder/tri
Tuesday: Back/bi
Wednesday: active rest (usually run and some light ab work)
Thursday: Leg/abs
Friday: active rest
Saturday: Chest/shoulder/tri
Sunday: off (because it's the one day my gym is actually closed, even to members, and I use it as my one true rest day)

Monday: Back/bi
Tuesday: Active rest
Wednesday: Leg/abs
Thursday: active rest
Friday: chest/shoulder/tri
Saturday: back/bi
Sunday: off



So as you see, the days you work certain things changes week to week, but it allows a little flexibility. I can miss a day and just swap an active rest day for it and be fine, and it is giving me a ton to do and work while I'm there, which I like. As high intensity as I am, I still get through my chest/shoulder/tri day in about an hour and 15 minutes, and that's including my warm-up period. Before I went to this split, I was getting through a workout in 30-45 minutes and feeling like "poo...that's it? I'm already done?"

 

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