Overworking my Arms?

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Buck It

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Hey yall, I'm a hardgainer, and want to make sure that I rest the proper amount of time. Here's my question:

I do Chest/Back on one day, Legs on another and Arms on their own day. I really like workin Arms on their own day, because I can lift a lot more than when I put them with other exercises. My only worry is that my Chest/Back exercises also work my shoulders, triceps and biceps. By working Arms on a seperate day, am I workin these muscle groups too much??
 
Because they are a smaller muscle group. You can easily work in arms with a major mover, and thats better than devoting a day to the minor movers. Kinda like devoting a day to calves or something. But there is nothing wrong with it.
 
try this

Chest and Bi's on one day
Tri's and legs on the next
Back and Shoulders on the last

you should allow 48 hours for each muscle group to rest and rebuild before working it out again. this will still allow you to work out each area twice a week.

Ab's and cardio should also be added in.
 
fitness4life said:
try this

Chest and Bi's on one day
Tri's and legs on the next
Back and Shoulders on the last

you should allow 48 hours for each muscle group to rest and rebuild before working it out again. this will still allow you to work out each area twice a week.

Ab's and cardio should also be added in.
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Except with this setup you'd have to allow a day between each workout and you wouldn't hit each muscle group two times a week. If you work chest and bi's on day 1 and then work tri's and legs on day 2, you've worked the tri's two days in a row and then add in shoulders on day 3 and then you've hit the triceps three days in a row if you have any shoulder pressing movements.
 
Buck It said:
What's wrong with having a day to train just arms?:confused:
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Nothing, if you've been training hardcore for many years. Behemoths like Ronnie Coleman have to train body parts separate, and with insane amounts of total reps, because they just keep adapting to their routine.

for people under 2 years of training, you don't need a day 'just for arms'...in fact I wouldn't even do that til you've had 3 years of training.


to get around the problem you describe...have two upper body workouts a week. one day, focus more on chest than back, and more on bi's than tri's.
on the other day, focus more on back than chest, and more on tri's than bi's.

in both situations, you still do chest and back, bis and tris...but you shift workloads around so that your bis aren't super tired already from tons of heavy rows and pullups for your back. Ditto on triceps day...maybe only some benchpress, and then flyes, so the tris are fresh for close grip bench (which'll hit the chest a little too) and skullcrushers.

obviously, you always work the chest and back before the smaller arm muscles.


I'm not saying the above method is the only solution...merely the one I employ.
 
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