So since i've started seriously lifting, i always did a hard leg day and always followed by chest the next. day I read an article on here saying that's a no no, any truth to that?
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Thread: Doing chest after leg day = bad?
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01-28-2009, 08:20 PM #1
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01-28-2009, 08:22 PM #2
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01-28-2009, 08:29 PM #3
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This shouldn't be an issue... personally, my rotation is...
Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest
Day 3: Arms
Day 4: Shoulders
Day 5: Back
Day 6: Off
Day 7: Off
Sometimes the off days rotate as needed to meet a schedule glitch..
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01-28-2009, 08:36 PM #4
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01-28-2009, 08:50 PM #7
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It's a relatively common split, perhaps the rotation isn't for everyone. However, the idea is to keep legs/back at some distance to keep deads/squats from negatively affecting eachother. Other than that, the only is keeping chest work from dipping into delt work too much. The Tri work does affect lifts but not too adversely so - as tri's respond pretty well to volume and seem to recover quite quickly for me.
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01-28-2009, 08:56 PM #8
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01-28-2009, 08:57 PM #9
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01-28-2009, 09:03 PM #10
6 foot even at 175lbs VS 5 foot 11 at 214lbs.....
No offense, but PWNED!!
When you stop growing on that horrible program drop revet0r a line....
OP....As long as you're making progress on any program who is to say it's wrong? Doing chest after legs is perfectly fine. Don't believe everything you read.
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01-28-2009, 09:07 PM #11
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01-28-2009, 09:20 PM #13
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No insult was taken, pretty much any half-decent routine can get someone results. Rev's pretty cut up - looks fine imo, but yeah... if he tries to add another 30-40lbs he might sing a different tune... or maybe not, or maybe not lean... tough to say until he does it imo.
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01-28-2009, 09:35 PM #14
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01-28-2009, 10:46 PM #15
Wow, do you fail to understand what "in my opinion" actually means? Come on now champ, look beyond the internet **** talking outlook. Wasn't meant to bash on him, I simply stated that IN MY OPINION (this is where you take time to comprehend what I had actually said), that it's too much overlapping.. I don't feel that 2 days is worthy enough to be considered a full recovery. And overlapping doesn't mean you won't make gains, but you can't assume that it doesn't hinder either.
For the love of God.. grow up and read a full post.
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01-28-2009, 10:50 PM #16
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I don't see why that wouldn't be alright..
My routine started as a 5 day split 3 years ago and has evolved into (and will continue to ever evolve):
day1:Chest/Back (arm work if i feel like it)
Day2: OFF
Day3:Legs/.. 6-11 set shoulder if im up for it
Day4:Chest/Back (arm work if i feel like it)
Day5: off
Day6:Legs.. 6-11 set shoulder if im up for it
Day7: off or chest/back day if i feel lke training again
Leg day i usually squat sometimes dead.. for some reason i haven't deadlifted regularly for a year.. i got to 500 for a max and stopped because of a new split i tried and never workedthem back in.. maybe i'll put them on 2nd leg day every week
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01-28-2009, 10:52 PM #17
I may have come off the wrong way, even though I had thrown in "no offense".. but here is my reasoning, as simple as it is:
Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest
Day 3: Arms
Day 4: Shoulders
Day 5: Back
Day 6: Off
Day 7: Off
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty spent after a good leg workout, and that can continue into the next day. Chest is a pretty important day as well. Now, I'm not sure what you incorporate into your chest workout, but I'm pretty sure you have at least 2 chest presses; these work the triceps pretty hard to be expecting an arms day the following day. Also, your front delts are hit hard on a chest day, and 2 days later to be working shoulders again.. I wouldn't feel like they were fully recovered. And again.. a good back workout definitely involves a lot of biceps, which you had just worked 2 days prior.
Just an opinion, just figured I would throw it out there.. god forbid. It's all about being open-minded.Last edited by rivet0r; 01-28-2009 at 10:55 PM.
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01-28-2009, 11:03 PM #18
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01-28-2009, 11:36 PM #20
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01-28-2009, 11:36 PM #21
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01-29-2009, 01:57 AM #22
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01-29-2009, 03:08 AM #23
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01-29-2009, 03:17 AM #24
I get what you are saying concerning squats and deads.
Have you ever thought though that if the set up was different your results would be even better?
For me to avoid so much overlap I'd go with
Day 1: Chest
Day 2: Back
Day 3: Off
Day 4: Shoulders
Day 5: Legs
Day 6: Arms
Day 7: Off
or alternately do shoulders/triceps on day 4 and biceps/forearms on day 6.
With a split like that what I even do myself is not even do deads on back day and just stick to rows, pulls, and shrugs.
Then just do stiff legged deads on leg day.
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01-29-2009, 03:29 AM #25
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01-29-2009, 05:51 AM #26
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Maybe, it all depends on how strict the days off stick to weekends. The delt, tri, bi 'overlap' if you will doesn't seem to be a big deal. They respond to volume and recover quite quickly. It's only the intense leg days that are of any concern for me. Definately don't want quad soreness for deads, and that can take 3-5 days to fully recover as an old man
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01-29-2009, 05:55 AM #27
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