Yo TG, I got a new workout routine to run by you (which is probably a variation of something else that someone's already come up with, but I don't f**kin' know!). I've been scheming on ways to improve the iron beast's chances, since he's been getting his ass kicked a little mightily just lately :duel::thumbsup:.
The idea is to keep my 3 day split for upper body w/ a rest day in between each (legs still gets its own day), but instead of going dedicated (monday - Chest/bis, wednesday - shoulder, friday back/tris) I'd do a full upper body workout each day, using only 1 compound exercise and 1 iso for each muscle group. The idea, as we've discussed w/ other routines in the past, would be to basically leave it all in the weightroom on each exercise, since you're only getting those two chances to wear out each muscle muscle group. We're talking heavier weights and working to failure every time.
Furthermore, you'll notice in my example below that I've set pushing and pulling exercises in an alternate format to allow for recovery during the workout and I've rotated muscle groups per day so that chest, shoulders and back each get a day of the week where they're the freshest muscle group.
I don't think it would be good to maintain this for more than, say, 4 weeks, but I think it could be really effective for building overall size in bursts. Particularly might be effective during a bulking cycle...say a 2-3 weeker of mdrol, should one of those cross my path in the near future.:twisted:
Check it out, lemme know what you think:
Monday
Chest
-Bench
-Flyes
Bis
-BB Curl
-Hammer Curl
Shoulders
-Arnolds
-Rear delt raise
Back
-BB Rows
-Seated rows
Tris
-Skull Crusher
-Overhead Cable Extension
Wednesday
Shoulders
-Behind-the-neck Mils
-Lat raise
Back
-Lat Pulldown
-Straight-arm pulldown
Chest
-Incline/Decline (2 sets each)
-Incline/Decline Flyes (2 sets each)
Bis
-DB Curl
-Incline Hammer Curl
Tris
-Close Grip Bench
-Cable Extension
Friday
Back
-DB Rows
-Vbar Pulldown
Tris
-Weighted Dip
-Kickbacks
Shoulders
-Mils
-Front raise
Bis
-Preacher Curl
-Incline Prone Curl
Chest
-DB Bench
-DB Flyes