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workout order?

mobstert2005 Posts: 34 Joined: 2005/12/17	2007/04/11, 09:46 AM is it bad to follow up a tricep day , the day after a chest or shoulder day? if so what is the best way to order those days
fouts Posts: 156 Joined: 2003/09/03	2007/04/11, 12:09 PM Look at the post "need to improve size in arms" on this board and read my suggestion of a workout. Try splitting your workouts up like this: Monday-upper body, Tuesday-lower body, Wednesday-rest, Thursday-upper body, Friday-lower body. Then on Saturday and Sunday either take it easy or try some cardio and maybe even throw in some push-ups and crunches. Just remember you have to rest your muscles for them to grow so triceps the next day after chest and shoulders generally isn't a good idea. Try the antagonist muscle workout and compound lifts approach like it says in the post. You don't have to follow the workout in the post exactly, just use that general idea.
mobstert2005 Posts: 34 Joined: 2005/12/17	2007/04/11, 05:42 PM i read that workout and it looks good and i will try it out, but would that be overtraining? cause for a really long time i have just done chest/tri one day and back/bi one day then i wait about 7 days tell i do it agian. if i do upper and lower body twice a week would it be overtaining i am 17 years old.
mobstert2005 Posts: 34 Joined: 2005/12/17	2007/04/11, 05:43 PM i would do legs one day and stuff to i just waited 7 days before i did that same muscle agian.
fouts Posts: 156 Joined: 2003/09/03	2007/04/11, 06:13 PM I'm a firm believer that legs should be worked out twice a week. But when I say upper body on Mondays and Thursdays I do not mean do the exact same exercises both days. Switch it up. There are plenty of combinations you can try. Maybe focus more on chest and back on Monday with bench presses, flys, dips, and rows, then on Thursday focus more on building your arms by doing some chin ups and pull ups and maybe some lateral raises to hit the shoulders and even top it off with three sets of each of curls and tricep extensions. You could even throw in a couple more chest exercises if you wanted to. You can switch up lower body days the same way really. But I still do squats and dead lifts twice a week. The key really is to watch the number of sets and reps. Keep it to no more than 4 sets of 8 of any exercise and don't do more than 3 exercises for each body part and you should be fine.
mobstert2005 Posts: 34 Joined: 2005/12/17	2007/04/12, 01:48 AM hey thanks a lot for your help man