Which Split is Better?

Bigger Stronger Leaner
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Back/Bis Chest/tris
or
Back/Chest Tris/Bis
Heard someone talking about this figured i’d bring it here to people with knowledge in lifting.

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[quote]kt12334 wrote:
Back/Bis Chest/tris
or
Back/Chest Tris/Bis
Heard someone talking about this figured i’d bring it here to people with knowledge in lifting.[/quote]
I’m not the smartest guy on here but I prefer chest-tri’s back-bi’s personally… For me I am able to have more energy for my major compound movements when I separate chest and back… Then I have a separate day for shoulders…

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Whichever one you like the most. The more you enjoy training, the harder and more consistently you’ll train.

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Thanks for replies and yeah that makes since with the compound movments

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Depends on the frequency. Chest and back together works on a twice a week split, but once a week, there is no way you are gonna be able to stimulate your back and chest thoroughly enough in one workout to warrant 7 days of rest. Personally I often do 6-7 excercises for back. Doing chest before or after this would be counterproductive.

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[quote]whatever2k wrote:
Depends on the frequency. Chest and back together works on a twice a week split, but once a week, there is no way you are gonna be able to stimulate your back and chest thoroughly enough in one workout to warrant 7 days of rest. Personally I often do 6-7 excercises for back. Doing chest before or after this would be counterproductive. [/quote]
I agree with this, I do about that many sets for my upper back as well. I also don’t do much bicep isolation either because they are pretty much trashed after all of the rowing I do… The biggest problem for Chest/back twice a week would be that if your doing that two days are you doing two arm days as well? then you would have one day for lower and one for shoulders… most people don’t want to work 6 days a week and to for me the recovery isn’t enough…

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One day hit chest w/ upperback and rear delts. Another day lats and bis.

I had my best growth in back thickness during the days I was doing 2 upper and 2 lat focused workouts a week.

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Thanks everyone… Doing back and chest then arms seemed like it would be a lot of work on the arms and maybe not enough recovery time?

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[quote]kt12334 wrote:
Thanks everyone… Doing back and chest then arms seemed like it would be a lot of work on the arms and maybe not enough recovery time?[/quote]

I think the concern is more over chest and back on same day. I’d save that for further down the road in your training career IF you happen to have a dominant chest/back and want to focus on bringing up arms, delts, legs, etc. I’m kind of in that boat right now tbh.

I mean no disrespect when I say I think an arms-only day is wasted at your current level of development. You still need to be hitting big muscle groups as often as possible in your training and conditioning your body to want to grow.