High Frequency Split Routine

I am thinking about using this variation of Chad Waterbury’s High Frequency training stuff. 4x a week whole body, with different set/rep paramters each day. Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri split. Monday will be 8 x 3, Tuesday 2 x 12, Thursday, 4 x 6, and Friday 3 x 8. Each workout (except deadlift day, as I don’t want to superset with deads) will include a pull off the floor, an upper body pushing exercise, upper body pulling exercise, a squat/lunge, a third upper body exercise and an abdominal exercise.

I wrestle and this is the only time of year (Spring) where I don’t do any actual wrestling so I want to make the best of it and make the most rapid strength and hypertrophy gains possible. I have been using a modified Westside template but that is getting old and I want something to change it up.

Here are two example days.

Day 1:

a1) Deadlift

b1) Bench Press
b2) Bulgarian Squat

c1) Supinated Bent Row
c2) Weighted Sit-Up

Day 3: 4 x 6

a1) Zercher Squat
a2) Thick-Bar Push-Press

b1) Power Clean
b2) Pronated Row

c1) Full-Contact Twist
c2) Thick-Bar Cheat Curls

doesnt look bad. try it. I would say though if in season I would over due it and really with cutting weight etc, Hell id do your best to maintain strength. lift brief and heavy. Use practice running stairs etc to do the conditioning.

I may even make it VERY simple on a plan like your and go with NOTHING but big exercises. One push, one pull one legs, one abs. thats it Oh and those can be supersetted as well. the push and pull in one pair the legs and abs in another

A few days may be
a1 squat
a2 wood choppers

b1 clean and press
b2 Chins

day 2
a1 DL
a2 Weighted decline crunches

b1 Bench
b2 BO ROWS

day 3
a1 Lunges
a2 leg raises

b1 dips
b2 upright rows

Day 4
a1 RDL, or step ups
a2 side bends (DB, BB, or cable)

b1 incline DB bench
b2 DB row to hip, machine rows, etc

Either way best of luck

Phill

[quote]Phill wrote:
doesnt look bad. try it. I would say though if in season I would over due it and really with cutting weight etc, Hell id do your best to maintain strength. lift brief and heavy. Use practice running stairs etc to do the conditioning.

I may even make it VERY simple on a plan like your and go with NOTHING but big exercises. One push, one pull one legs, one abs. thats it Oh and those can be supersetted as well. the push and pull in one pair the legs and abs in another
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I am not in-season. The season starts in November and ends around February so thats a long wayss off. I am going to do a plan similar to yours and have one superset of squat/push, another of whole body pull/upper body pull, and finish it off with some grip work. If I break my balls on the first two supersets I am fried by the third superset anyway, so the grip and ab stuff works out perfectly.

KombatAthlete,

May I suggest you switch the parameters for Tue and Fri?
Thu and Fri you have 4x6 and 3x8, the rep ranges are bit similar there.

I just came off a 9 week HF program and made the best gains of my life.

My buddy, who saw my prgrass first hand is now doing something similar to what you are planning.

Mon 8x3
Tue 4x6
Wed High reps, light weight (see Chad’s new article)
Thu 6x4
Fri 2x12

He’s blowing up. Gained close to 4 lbs on last two and a half weeks.

He does:

Mon:
Front Squat
Push Press
Deadlift
Bench Press
Step ups
Bent Rows

Tue
Squat
Dips
Back extensions with barball
Pull ups with weight
Leg curls
High Incline Medium Grip Bench Press

Wed
Plie Squats, body only
Push ups
Cobra’s
V-ups
Reverse rows feet on floor
light dumbell side raises Cressey style

Thu
Barbell hack squat
Decline bench press
Snatch
T-bar row
Good mornings
Wide grip chin ups

Fri
Calf raises
Seated leg curls
Leg presses
machine crunch
seated row
lat pulldowns
cable flyes
front raises
bent raises
scott curls
pushdowns
wrist curls

He is making very good progress on this.

Hope this gives you another option!

Good luck!

Marc

Forgot to mention that my buddy, like you, is a fighter (kick boxer) and he is noticably ‘tighter’.

I myself lost fat and gained muscle at the same time so if you are worried about staying in the same weight class…

Again, good luck