Is this ok for my Tuesday exercise ?!


Question: Is this ok for my Tuesday exercise ?
Monday I worked out mainly my Chest and triceps. Tomorrow I want to work out my abs, but I'm told to work out larger muscle groups first. Would that mean I should work out my back or legs ? I want to work out my abs,obliques and back all at one, is this ok ?

Thanks so much for the help, I really appreciate the advice and info very much

Answers:

I wouldn't do it either way. Chest and back in one day is too much for one workout. You cant have a full on workout on one without sacrificing the energy you would be using for the next. So if you do back first, you are cheating your chest out of a quality workout. Or vice versa. I dont recommend doing two large muscle groups in the same workout.
And if you do chest and then triceps or back and then biceps, you will have already taxed your arms before you get to them and will, again, not be able to commit a full workout.
Try doing pulling muscles on one day and then pushing muscles another day, but do muscles that dont affect each other.
For example, I do chest with calves. Both pushing muscles, but neither is used in working the other.
here is an example of my training split:

Day 1)-Shoulders and triceps
Day 2)-Biceps, forearms, and hamstrings
Day 3)-off
Day 4)Quads
Day 5)-off
Day 6)-Back
Day 7)-Chest and calves
Day 8)-off

as you can see, I train everything just once a week. That allows the muscles plenty of time to rest before being worked out again. Also, I make sure that I dont train a muscle that will have to be used to help me with another muscle for at least a couple of days. Like doing chest the day after you do triceps is not giving the triceps enough rest. Resting is when the muscles build up larger, so if you dont give them enough time to rest before you break them down again, you will actually lose size.

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For the past month I have been applying your principles on which muscles to workout out on certain days. Although I have seen results, my strength gains have not been significant. I think it’s mainly due to the number and types of workouts that I perform for each muscle during my workouts. If you have experienced good results from your workouts, can you please give me an example of what you would do on each day you lift.

Thanks.

Below has been my workout over the past month (everything’s mainly 3 sets x 10 reps, or 4x12 for legs)

gs



(I know a changed it up a bit compared to yours, and that I am not giving enough rest to some muscles)

Report by Gi17 on September 10th, 2010
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if you trained on monday then rest on tuesday.

try working opposite muscles , so biceps and front shoulders and abs on one day, then triceps, traps and back/obliques the next time.

it helps to work larger muscle groups first then stabaliser muscles.



Treat abs like any other muscle group, 1-2/week and with weights, for optimum results. What day you do abs does not matter, maybe on off days?




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