I’m having trouble with the weighting of standard upper lower, in that after my heavy compounds, then doing my arms makes them feel like an afterthought, and I can’t bring the intensity I need. On the flip side, doing them at the start of the workout significantly hampers my back and chest training. …

Ill save you the over thinking. Are those direct arm movements your using progressing in the rep count or weight used per set? ( with good form) If so … your good. As @RT_Nomad stated some more info might be nice. So people could make a more educated suggestion for you.

[image] LG18: If you did Mon-T/Tues-L/Wed-Off/Thurs-T/Fri-L/Sat-Off/Sun-Off Can you explain this a little? Is “torso Tuesday” ™ like bench and press, then limb Wednesday is curls and pushdowns. Then torso thursday is squat and limb Friday is left extensions and leg curls or….? I guess, give …

[image] LG18: I’m someone who likes to train to failure as well, so the arms do take a beating with pressing and pulling at 0-rir and 12 sets a week. Then you do not know how to target a muscle. Why not just do upper/lower and give arms their own day?

It is Upper/Lower with bi’s and tri’s on lower days.

If it stresses you out, and doesn’t make sense to you, forget about the Torso/Limb split and try something else. You want to be confident in your program, so you can focus on kicking ass. Not fretting and worried. You could try Arm Day, like already mentioned. Or Chest/Bicep Legs Shoulders/Tri…

Agree with everyone here - if it doesn’t make sense, don’t do it. You could reduce your frequency, so you have rest days in there (like a DC split), you could do PPL or a true Push / Pull (the “best damn” series on this site used that), or just put an arm day anywhere. Do you have any specific goa…

Well I think it’s an inevitablity that your arms are going to be fatigued somewhat from heavy pressing and rowing, surely. I have considered an arm day, but where would it slot in? Thanks.

[image] LG18: Thanks. It makes sense to me from an organizational standpoint. I was just unsure about a couple of aspects – mainly the notion of training the same muscle groups, even if one of those days is indirectly, twice in two days. Though traditional bro splits did that, I suppose. The oth…

Thanks, where would you suggest adding an arm day? Can you feasibly train a muscle group two consecutive days in a row and not run into issues?

In fairness, I have only been doing the upper/lower routine for a couple of weeks, but it was just one thing I noticed that by the end of the session, when it came to arms, I was getting pretty tired by that point. I would have to wait and see whether my strength went up in my curls and extensions, …

How does a torso/limb split work when you'd be training your arms two consecutive days in a row?

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How does a torso/limb split work when you'd be training your arms two consecutive days in a row?

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