Going to change my split

[blinddeafmute]

Ive been on DC for a while now. Made some really good gains and have been generally impressed with it.

Only one thing I dont like and that is splitting up my muscle groups into 2 days. Its might be more of a mental thing, but it seemed more comfortable to me splitting it into 3 days...push/pull/legs.

Im thinking of going to 4 days per week and changing things up a bit.

Like this.

Monday Push
Tuesday Pull
Thursday Legs
Friday Push

Monday Pull
Tuesday Legs
Thursday Push
Friday Pull

etc etc.

Im also thinking of doing this with my rep range.

On compund movements, keeping it to 1 set of 5 reps.
Then my isolation movements for the related muscle groups, doing 1 set of 10-12 reps.

Example day would look like this.

Incline bench 30° 1 set of 5 or so reps
Flat Fly's 1 set of 10-12 reps
Lat raises 1 set of 10-12 reps
Dips 1 set of 10-12 reps

Any opinions on this? My idea is to mix up the rep range in order to target all of my muscle fibers, but keeping it low volume in order not to overtrain anything.

CCJ posted a warmup routine that I used and fell in love with immediatly. Ive never felt more prepared for a lift. I like DC's extreme stretching and will keep it in my routine too. I dont care much for static holds or the slow negatives, but may incorporate the rest pauses for my compound movements after judging my initial results.

Any suggestions and or opinions on this routine are more than welcome as I am always looking to fill my head with knowledge.

Thanks everyone.

 

[blinddeafmute]

Oh and BTW, my diet will remain DC style with extremely high protien and extremely high carbs cutting out the carbs before bed.

At the moment I am taking in 300g+ protien with right under 6000cals.

I had good results from that before when I stuck strictly to it. Of course it will be adjusted accordingly.


I think diet is the key to success anyway, the workout is only a small part of it (at least for someone as new as I am).

The only reason I am switching it up is to enjoy my workouts more. I just couldnt get into doing pullups on bench day and curls on leg day.