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Please critique my routine (twice a week hitting)

Bulk

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Well I would like to hit each muscle group twice a week.
Here is my routine:
Mon: am: chest pm: shoulders / triceps
Tues: am: back pm: biceps
Wedn: legs
Thurs: am: chest pm: shoulders / triceps
Frid: am: back pm: biceps
Sat: legs
Sund: rest
I don't work, i don't go to school (i'm a lucky bastard lol)
I eat a lot, my protein intake is like 350 grams / day.
I sleep 9 hours per night.
Am i overtraining ?
Thank you in advance buddies.
 
I have been lifting for 6 months, i'm 18, 6"6', 166lb, i'm not on A.S., my goal is max. bulking.
 
I'm a fan of training every day, but your system does seem like alot -if you do legs properly, you should not be able to recover in only 2 off days
 
If you just started out

If you just started out you may want to try to just concentrate on one bodypart a day and try to totally destroy it and give it a week to rest. I personally hit some bodyparts twice a week, I have been training for 12 years though and only do this to my hardgaining areas. However when I do this the first workout for the week is very hard and heavy the second is more of an endurance run were the weight is less but there is almost no rest period between sets.

You do however need to feel out what is best for you. Any piece of advice given to you should be listen to and thought about, but shouldnt be taken as if your life depended upon it.

There are many of us on this board that are very knowledgable about the body and the weights but we cant seem to agree on anything. lol
 
Your routine looks like something out of Arnold's "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding." As Abbadon said, even very knowledgable people have a hard time agreeing on what works best. Just find something that works. That said, I feel that your going to very quickly become overtrained on this routine, as would almost anyone. You haven't really included any specific information about exercises/sets/reps but to me that seems a little beside the point. I think you'd probably make much better progress training 4 days, or--gasp--3 days a week. Give your body time to recover. Focus on making progression on the big, compound exercises. Squats, deadlifts, weighted chin & dips, bench press, and the overhead press. You might, since you've been training only 6 months be able to get away with training body parts 3X a week provided your routine is very abbreviated. Something like:

Squats
Incline Bench Press
Weighted Chins
Flat Bench Press
Seated Row
Standing Barbell Curls
Standing Calf-Raise

3x a week can work wonders for beginners. If you not making progress, doing a 4 or 3 day a week program that hits each bodypart only once a week would still be improvement. I'm a big believer in rest days. I think ideally you should have one day off between workouts to recover from systemic effects of training(e.g. lactic acid production and the hormonal effects) not to mention giving individual muscle groups a chance to recover.
 
Bulk-
Whatsup bro? I really think that the routine that you are doing will quickly lead to overtraining since your not on AS. Training during the AM & PM is extremely taxing on the body.. I feel that you would achieve MUCH better results training one time per day maybe 4x per week.. Chest, delts, and tris in one session per day is not as taxing on the body and youll probably achieve much better results.

Continue keeping your protein up and getting 9 hours of sleep though that should make your training results even more favorable.

:D:D
 
Thanks, BTW this routine is as Blood&Iron said from Arnold's "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding."
 
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