5 days without rest

[Daernoth]

I ended up missing my chest day last week, and If I can't make it to the gym tonight I've resolved to make it up next week, but would that be too much? After adding the chest day to this week it will look like this:

Mon- Chest
Tues- Leg
Wed- back
thur- arm
fri- chest

compared to my usual schedule would go something like this:

mon-legs
tues- arms
wed-rest
thur-chest
fri-back

Let me know if you think this one-time thing would be overtraining.

 

[The Shadow]

I do somehting similar - for me its not overtraining.

 

[AnimalMother]

thats fine bro, granted that you didnt totally thrash your chest. everyones body is diff. i personally wouldnt put back and bi's next to each other or chest and tri's. do sat and sun have to be your rest days? if not try
mon: chest & shoulders
tues: back
wed:leg
thur:arms
fri: rest
sat:chest
sun:rest

if sat and sun have to be rest days cuz of work or school or whatever try this:
mon:chest
tues:back/biceps
wed:triceps/shoulders
thur:legs
fri :chest

but if you do the latter of the two you might want to swap legs from your regular routine into a diff day as you will have just worked them on thur. just a thought.

 

[beefybull]

Or a better split would be...

Monday - Back/Chest/Arms
Tuesday - Legs
Wednesday - Arms
Thursday - Shoulders
Friday - Back/Chest or Olympic lifts

I assume you rest on the weekends...

And dont undereat if you think you could overtrain.

 

[TheOak84]

im suprised Debaser hasnt bitched about this thread yet...HAH

 

[Debaser]

Eventually everyone will see the light. My DC thread is already over 200 posts.

And Daernoth why would you risk overtraining, you missed 1 freaking chest workout. It's not the end of the world.

Beefybull overtraining is not remedied simply by eating more. Otherwise let's just do 100 sets every day and just eat 10,000 calories a day. It doesn't work that way. On that split you're talking about hitting the arms twice in 3 days? Then your shoulders? Then your shoulders again? Delts get hit pretty hard in chest movements, and the rear delts in back movements. In other words your split looks more like this:

Monday - back/chest/arms/shoulders
Tuesday legs
Wednesday - arms
Thursday - Shoulders
Friday - Back/chest/arms/shoulders (don't think just because you're not isolating them you're not training them, benches/dips still hit tris pretty hard, and back movements generally hit biceps pretty hard too)

So you train your arms and shoulders 3 times each in 5 days without any rest?

 

[louden_swain]

I don't see how people can devote 100 percent intensity training 5 days straight. I guess everyone is different. Personally I think a two on 1 off is a good choice.

 

[JDarty6173]

I know personally my training would suffer with 5 consecutive intense days of training.. Like Louden Said, I need days off to recover.. But if you have to do it at least up your caloric consumption. Extra Protein and carbs do help me to recover faster...

 

[JDarty6173]

I know personally my training would suffer with 5 consecutive intense days of training.. Like Louden Said, I need days off to recover.. But if you have to do it at least up your caloric consumption. Extra Protein and carbs do help me to recover faster...

 

[beefybull]

And Daernoth why would you risk overtraining, you missed 1 freaking chest workout. It's not the end of the world.

Beefybull overtraining is not remedied simply by eating more. Otherwise let's just do 100 sets every day and just eat 10,000 calories a day. It doesn't work that way. On that split you're talking about hitting the arms twice in 3 days? So you train your arms and shoulders 3 times each in 5 days without any rest?

My Split was actually
Mon - Back/Chest/Arms
Tues - Legs/Shoulders(Light)
Wed - Arms/Back(Lighter)/Chest(Lighter)
Thurs - Shoulders/Legs(Lighter)
Fri - Arms(Light)/Back(Light)

Now I'm changing it up b/c I'm having to change the entire way I train (to include more sports specific training, etc). I dont think everyone can train 5 days in a row, but for some people it works. And I didnt mean to imply that eating more remedies overtraining completely, just that a lot of the time, people arent making progress because they dont get adequate nutrition, homey.