[Danielle]

I saw this training schedule in the July issue of Muscle and Fitness. It's supposed to allow for gains in the chest area. I'm going to go for it. Anyone already doing this?

Day/Bodyparts Trained
1 chest, shoulders
2 back, biceps
3 rest
4 chest, triceps
5 legs [I'm going to replace this with abs]
6-7 rest

[triumph]

Originally Posted by Danielle

I saw this training schedule in the July issue of Muscle and Fitness. It's supposed to allow for gains in the chest area. I'm going to go for it. Anyone already doing this?

Day/Bodyparts Trained
1 chest, shoulders
2 back, biceps
3 rest
4 chest, triceps
5 legs [I'm going to replace this with abs]
6-7 rest

Seems like a good split. I used to use something very similar to that in my core training. Chest and triceps are always good together... nice that it works chest twice though. I need to think about that.

As for doing abs instead of legs, why do you not like your legs? I have always understood it that you should work out abs more frequently, to get maximum benefit, so you might do abs seperately or on top of everything else several days a week. I would not give up the legs. I love doing leg workouts myself.

[Danielle]

I'm trying to downsize my thighs. I'm leery about not training my legs because I know muscle increases BMR, but am willing to try it for a while just in case it actually works. My ultimate goal is to lose the fat I've accumulated the past few years and rebuild from there. As for abs, I've always trained them just once a week; my abs (and triceps) respond fast to the slightest of training. But I'd give that up for lean, sleek thighs any day of the week.

[movni]

What are you doing for your thighs? I've always found my thighs the hardest part to acheive muscle tone.

[Predator]

i think it is a great split.i am also doing chest and shoulders in the same day and also doing 4 workout per week.
the split above is great because it allows you to work your chest 2 times a week and you also get plenty of rest

[Sven21]

i would cut out the triceps.since you are working your pecs and your shoulders,and then again your pecs i think there is a chance of overtraining the triceps.i would also do the second chest training session in day 5 and move the legs into day for so i would have more rest between the chest days

[navitatl]

I've never been one for working out 2 days in a row. But if you don't mind that, this will be a great workout for you. Like someone else said, be careful not to overwork your triceps.

[Danielle]

The pecs split has been working out pretty good and I'm seeing improvement in the chest area. My legs haven't changed in size or shape since I quit training them (it figures).

I'm curious as to why anyone would think that triceps would get overtrained on this routine? I figure that triceps are a decent-sized muscle group and overtraining would be more likely to occur on something smaller like biceps. I could never do away with training my triceps--they're my favorite part to train (and my 'show-off' muscle ).

[hizumiruupu]

I've been looking for a new schedule, and I think I might very well use this one. You said its been working out well for chest/shoulders, and thats what I need the most work on.

[Stanley]

That's pretty much what I do, maybe the order is switched around a bit but I don't think that matters. It's worked great for me! I've become strangely attractive since I started it.