I normally do chest, triceps and shoulders on Monday.
However, due to bad planning on my part (no excuses), the gym was closing so I didn’t have time to do shoulders.
So should I do shoulders on my next chest/tris/shoulders workout? Or train them on Off day or with Back/Traps/Biceps?
Taking 30 minutes on an offday to get a good shoulder workout sounds better to me … doing it on your back day would not only reduce the quality of the work on the muscle group you train last (doing back/shoulders/traps/ will really leave you wrecked when time comes to do bi’s), but also probably make your workout volume too high, assuming you kept the same back/bis/traps routine.
just my thoughts, good luck
I’ve learned this though many years of trial and error; Do not overthink your bodybuilding endeavors.
I wont go so far as to tell you to flip a coin but…
If you hit shoulders with legs, you’ll get a response.
If you train them with chest, you’ll get another (training with local fatigue).
If you train them with back, you’ll get yet another slightly different response.
Don’t be afaid of training them too often if you do them alone now then again with chest four days from now. It’s not a chronic situation so for little issues like this, just pick a route and put all your effort into the workout you choose. It’ll all work out in the end.
I’ve found that over-analyzing this stuff takes all the fun and magic out of it.
[quote]derek wrote:
I’ve learned this though many years of trial and error; Do not overthink your bodybuilding endeavors.
I wont go so far as to tell you to flip a coin but…
If you hit shoulders with legs, you’ll get a response.
If you train them with chest, you’ll get another (training with local fatigue).
If you train them with back, you’ll get yet another slightly different response.
Don’t be afaid of training them too often if you do them alone now then again with chest four days from now. It’s not a chronic situation so for little issues like this, just pick a route and put all your effort into the workout you choose. It’ll all work out in the end.
I’ve found that over-analyzing this stuff takes all the fun and magic out of it.
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sound advice
Thanks, I finised my back/traps/bis workout with shoulders and it felt great.
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
Thanks, I finised my back/traps/bis workout with shoulders and it felt great.[/quote]
Awesome! I often get asked “What bodyparts should I group together?”
My reply is to try something different. Maybe not totally random but it wont kill you to try something that doesn’t make a lot of sense once in a while.
Glad you had a good workout.
Ok so my split at the moment is 5 days out of 7 and back width and Bi, chest and Tri, delts, Lats and Traps and Legs.
So i dont think legs-monday, back-tuesday… I just know i have 7 days to get in 5 workouts. If i feel tired, i’ll have a day off, that tends to be either after 2 days or 3 days training. So i have a day off then fresh, i go back for another 2-3 days and a day off.
I make sure if i trained chest and tri i am not gonna go in a nd do delts but other than that i do what i feel has stopped aching, wont interfere with recovery of the past couple days, is due, and what i want to train… sometimes that means doing legs when i dont want to- but hey, we cant win all the time.
I’d suggest going with delts on the off day myself. And give them a good 50% more sets than normal. Why? Why Not?!
Joe
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
I normally do chest, triceps and shoulders on Monday.
However, due to bad planning on my part (no excuses), the gym was closing so I didn’t have time to do shoulders.
So should I do shoulders on my next chest/tris/shoulders workout? Or train them on Off day or with Back/Traps/Biceps?[/quote]
adding to what derek said:
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I’ve found that over-analyzing this stuff takes all the fun and magic out of it.[/quote]
This sometimes happens to me from time to time…
See it as an opportunity to try something really different…
Do a machine you don’t use normally or try a rep skeem that’s out of the norm…
Sort of when the gym gives you lemons… crush them with your massive arms and make lemonade flavored post workout shake thing…
[quote]inthego wrote:
Sort of when the gym gives you lemons… crush them with your massive arms and make lemonade flavored post workout shake thing…[/quote]
Great line!