3 Month's in. Advice Wanted.

[Jokuer]

I really deciding to get into lifting a few months ago. Started body-weight exercises first then moved on to the gym about a month and a half ago. I would love any advice anyone can give me for the gym, preferably on how to improve my chest or my biceps. I generally do a 5 day split. I am thinking about also amping up my plan, is that a good idea?

My Split
Day 1 - Chest/Triceps/Core
Day 2 - Back/Biceps/Calves
Day 3 - Core
Day 4 - Legs
Day 5 - Shoulders/Traps

What I may start
Day 1 - Chest/Triceps/Core
Day 2 - Back/Biceps/Calves
Day 3 - Chest/Triceps/Core
Day 4 - Back/Biceps/Calves
Day 5 - Shoulders/Traps/Legs
Day 6 - Full Body
Day 7 - Rest

[sando88]

definitely dont start doing 6 days.. less is more. you will burn more calories doing more workouts therefore less gains. plus your recovery time will be longer

[Jokuer]

definitely dont start doing 6 days.. less is more. you will burn more calories doing more workouts therefore less gains. plus your recovery time will be longer

I'm only upping my frequency because a friend of mine told me that the extra frequency would promote growth as long as I built a healthy plan around it. So I tend to go 4 weeks of hard lifting then take a week to de-load so my muscles are fine. Will that hurt my gains also?

[JoeDelaney]

I would just weight train four times a week and do everything in say an 8 day split so it takes you two weeks to get around every body part. That will be fine for now as long as you incorporate some chest into your tricep workouts (weighted dips, narrow press etc) and some back into your bicep workouts (narrow grip ull-ups etc). Could help to try not to do two 'big' sessions in two consecutive days. i.e have a rest day after legs or train a small muscle group like biceps as opposed to back or chest. Otherwise you won't be getting maximum muscle growth. I do a 10 day split, and it's working for me, I just gotta make sure I work each muscle hard because it's gonna be ten days before I get back around to it.

[Jokuer]

I would just weight train four times a week and do everything in say an 8 day split so it takes you two weeks to get around every body part. That will be fine for now as long as you incorporate some chest into your tricep workouts (weighted dips, narrow press etc) and some back into your bicep workouts (narrow grip ull-ups etc). Could help to try not to do two 'big' sessions in two consecutive days. i.e have a rest day after legs or train a small muscle group like biceps as opposed to back or chest. Otherwise you won't be getting maximum muscle growth. I do a 10 day split, and it's working for me, I just gotta make sure I work each muscle hard because it's gonna be ten days before I get back around to it.

Thanks for the tips, how do you think this split would work rather?

Day 1 - Chest/Triceps
Day 2 - Rest
Day 3 - Back/Biceps
Day 4 - Rest
Day 5 - Shoulders/Traps/Legs
Day 6 - Rest
Day 7 - Full body (lower-intensity)