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Mustang's new training split

I would change up a few things, 1st thing is to change declines to the end of your chest workout b/c that area grows quicker than the upper part, and if you have a bigger upper chest it will always look better.

Also I wouldn't do back and bi's b/c the bi's will be to fatiqued to grow good, maybe put them with shoulders or tri's. I just changed mine routine and put them with shoulders.

General Rule of sets: is big muscles usually 12-15 sets.
small muscles usually 6-12 sets.

My routine has worked pretty good for me, for the other question of how much weight is being done on dumbells,
I usually end with 60's or 55's if I'm real tired, haven't juiced yet either.
 
MUSTANG_18 said:
Hey guy..I just went over my routine and came up with this. Let me know what ya think. I'll move it to the training board later on but I would like to get your opinions as well. Fell free to make any critques

Monday-Chest and Tri's
Decline dumbell press 4 sets of 8 reps
Incline flys 3 sets of 8 reps
Incline Bench press 3 sets 8 reps
Cable cross overs 3-4 sets of 10 reps with full stretch
Overheard tri extensions double hands 3 sets of 8 reps
Lying Tricept extentions 3 sets of 8 reps
Cable tricep presses 2 sets of 8 reps

Tuesday-Back
T-Bar rows 3 sets of 8 reps
Wide grip cable pull downs in fron 3 sets 8 reps
Bent over rows 3 sets 8 reps
Closed grip pull downs 3 sets 8
Deadlifts 4 sets of 6-8 reps

Wednesday-Legs
Leg extensions
Machine presses 4 sets of 6 reps
Squats 5 sets of 6-10 reps

Thursday-Bi's and Forarms
Standing barbell curl 3 sets of 8 reps
Closed grip preacher curl 3 sets 8 reps
Alternating dumbell curl 3 sets of 8 reps
Behind the back wrist curls 5 sets of 15-20 reps
Hammer Curls 3 sets of 8-10 reps
reverse barbell curl 3 sets 8 reps

Friday-Shoulder and Dealts
Bent over lat raises 3 sets of 8 reps
Upright barbell rows 3 sets 8 reps
Standing side lateral raises 3 sets of 8 reps
Military Press 3 sets 8 reps
Dumbell Shrugs 4 sets of 8 reps

I do cardio 4 times a week for 25min/Day and do 5min of warm up cardio before each workout. All lifts are done with the heaviest weight possable while maintaining good form

M18
Mustang for a young guy,even though chemically augmented you are overtraining. Not only with the # of sets (ie 13 -14 sets for chest and 12 sets (I didn't include traps) and more importantly you are training 5 DAYS IN A ROW. That is WAY too much. You should be lifting no more than 4 days a week, with a liberal amount of days off. Lets say tuesday is an "off " day you can go out and walk,rollerblade and paly basketball or something fun.
Another idea is with back day. Make deadlifts the core of your workout and you really wont have to worry about traps all that much. Second is to NEVER do deads and then bent rows on the same day unless you are training light for some reason (from what you said you aren't-so this should interest you). Example if you are doing deads this back workout, maybe do some chins (weighted or unweighted) and then hit your deads for 3-5 sets and try and slowly progress your poundages every time (I reccomend them every other week) and then do maybe a some hammer strength hi rows or something where you arent overloading your lower back.
The next weeks back workout can be built around bent over rows. Then maybe do low cable rows and whatever you like. Trust me after 3-5 sets of heavy deads the last thing on your mind should be bent rows-if not you arent hitting it hard enough.
Also If you hit deads hard I'd reccomend not squatting that week and doing hacks and presses, and then the week of bent rows make squats your focus.
Also you left out hams- Im sure you train them but with what bodypart?
Just remember even if your muscles can recover you will be astounded how much someone your age will EXPLODE when you rest more. Its not uncommon to see your deadlift go up 10-15 or even 20lbs (especially if you havent hit them that much).
When I started deadlifting i could do 365x5. 9 months later I was doing 500 for sets of 5-7 without any gear b/c I couldnt afford it. All that I could afford was food.
Also look into doing rack deadlifts from just under the knee. It will hit your lats like something SICk.
 
Mustang... I am so glad you finally took my advice and decided to put the Solo-Flex and the Bow-Flex in the garage where they belong....now if I could just get you to get rid of the Tony Little Ab Exerciser...................... :-)
 
bigguns7 said:
More of a qestion than a critique . . .

The decline chest exercises - I have heard from many different sources that decline exercises are mainy a waste of time and energy. If you're trying to work lower pecs, I think time is much better spent on weighted dips.

I have read the same thing bigguns. It may work great for some but not so good for others. I would rather spend my time doing inclines v declines
 
mustang...my friend...my brother...my lover...I mean..forget that last part...

1)your arms are your weak point right? give them their own day

2)like YMK said..get some rest days in between your split...I know you have sat/sunday free...why not workout one of these days

3)if you want a weak point to grow have a day off before it and a day off after it...for me it's chest...the last day of my routine is sunday(this will change now with NFL started) so I take monday off...then hit chest by it's self on tuesday and then take wednesday off

4)11 sets for your forearms?...c'mon....Hammer curls to begin every bi workout...that's all you need...

5) start doing cardio for 45 minutes....you won't tap into true fat burning in under 30 minutes

6) Heavy weights doesn't=big bi's...

and now a special treat......biceps by therealj

no two workouts are really ever the same...I'll generally do 8-12 sets depending on how I feel spread over 3-4 exercises...the one exercise I almost always include and do first is hammer curls....this is really the only one where I go heavy as well..other exercise I swear by are preacher curls,concentration curls done standing like Arnold,standing dumbbell curls with a lighter weight for high reps with a real focus on wrist supination and peak contraction...if there were a few points I would stress for bi training it would be

1) wrist supination...you want a ball supinate your wrist

2) peak contraction

3) slow on the negative

4) 15-20 minutes MAX

5) less is more if done correctly
 
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A couple things, Mustang:

First of all, do you vary the tempo of your lifts? Playing around with the time the nuscle is undr load is vital to stimulating new growth without overtraining. Secondly, are you making sure to rotate workouts at least every three months? At this point (ten plus years) I change every three weeks.
 
Secondly, are you making sure to rotate workouts at least every three months? At this point (ten plus years) I change every three weeks.
Very important. However, I am sure that mustang is only using this as a "blueprint." One must continue to vary sets, reps, excercises, order etc. for maximal growth.
 
Thanks for all the help everyone. I am gonna switch it up a little
It will look like this
Monday-Chest
Tuesday-Back
Wednesday-off
Thursday-Dealts-Traps-legs
Friday-Off
Saturday-Bi's, Tri's and Forarms
Sunday off

warm up cardio for 5 min before every workout and cardio for 45min/Day on my off days. I'll cut the forarm sets down as well as the number of back sets as well as chest and I will move decline presses to the end of the workout. I'll alternate between bent over rows and deads every week and I'll focus on deads as my main back exersize. Thanks again for all the help.

M18
 
MUSTANG_18 said:

It will look like this
Monday-Chest
Tuesday-Back
Wednesday-off
Thursday-Dealts-Traps-legs
Friday-Off
Saturday-Bi's, Tri's and Forarms
Sunday off

M18

You've had some great advice so far buddy but your new split looks a little unbalanced to me. Monday and Tuesday you are doing just one muscle group I know they are mojor muscle groups but...

Thursday is one very heavy day Delts, Traps AND legs. That is one hell of a workout. I have a seperate day for delts and traps, same with legs.

I know somedays it doesnt seem like there are enough days in the week and obviously God didnt take BB's into account when he designed the week! lol

Here is my Trg routine just to give you an idea of where Im coming from:

Day 1 - Chest & Tri's
Day 2 - Rest
Day 3 - Legs
Day 4 - Back & Bi's, with a little forearms thrown in too.
Day 5 - Rest
Day 6 - Delts & Traps
Day 7 - Cardio & Abs

That works for me buddy although sometimes Ill switch Chest and Tri's to Chest and Bi's/Back &Tri's.

Hope that helps bud, but after all you know youre own body best.

UglyASS :D
 
watch out for overstraining too many sets do no more than 8-9 for large body parts and no more than 6-7 for small!

i do this

Monday chest - hamstring - traps - calf
Tuesday back - foramrs
Wednesday - off
Thursday - Delts - quards
Friday - arms
Weekend
Weekend
 
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