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Muscle recovery / Muscle groups

ProXimaCore Posts: 2 Joined: 2005/03/03	2005/07/06, 05:25 AM I'm wondering about muscle recovery and when to train each muscle group. I did my back on Monday night just there and I did my chest on Saturday. They're both sore right now. (Wednesday) I haven't done any tricep, shoulder or bicep training because they're just too sore from those other excercises. Should I just not bother with training these muscles, and let the back and chest excercises do the work? Or should I be training these on the same night, for example doing biceps on same night, right after my back? Or should I have an additional day where I train just my arms, seperate from any chest or back days? Thanks for any advice. :)
bropie Posts: 1,084 Joined: 2004/12/04	2005/07/06, 08:45 AM theres alot of different splits.. however, i find training chest/bi and back/tri together to be effective. they are opposer muscle groups, meaning you dont use your triceps with a back exercise as much as a bicep, hence they are good to go after a back workout. you can then have a separate day for shoulders and legs.. do not leave out any muscle groups, as you will create imbalances in growth and could potentially injure yourself. everything has to progress together if you want to effectively build quality muscle all around. heck, even leg training has been shown to improve your bench press! to make things simple, ill just throw down my weekly split.. mon chest/bi/forearm tue legs/core wed rest thurs shoulders/traps/tris fri back/core sat rest sun core im kind of contradicting myself by putting tris with shoulders, but i just want to focus on a day for exclusive back training to really focus on strengthening it. ive had success and progression with this breakdown.
gangstershoes Posts: 641 Joined: 2005/05/27	2005/07/06, 03:53 PM As bropie stated there are lots of routines out there. Just make sure you hit everything. I have a push/pull split with a few mods. I try to put my biceps and triceps up in the front of the week as secondary workouts, and then workout them out as primaries at the end of the week. Typically I get more soreness in my triceps so I do all my push exercises on monday giving me plenty of recovery time mon chest/shoulders tues. back/lats/traps weds or thurs legs/abs friday arms (if they aren't still sore) sat and sun rest bottom line is you will have to try a few different splits and see what produces the best results for you.