Switching things up

[Luca Brasi]

Hey all, I usually try to switch up my routine every 4 weeks or so. Its good to surprise your muscles now and then to get over plateaus. Well I'm running out of new ideas as each rotation goes on. I usually just change the type of exercises for each muscle group (i.e. dumbell bench 4 weeks, then barbell bench 4 weeks), but I've been staying with the same muscle groups for about 3 months or so.

My muscle group rotation has been as follows:

Day 1: Legs, Calves, and lower back
Day 2: Chest, Triceps
Day 3: Back, Biceps, Forearms
Day 4: Shoulders, Traps, Abs

This time, I want to do a DRASTIC rearrangement of my routine, and I was thinking of combining muscle groups as follows:

Day 1: Chest, Shoulders
Day 2: Back, Traps
Day 3: Legs
Day 4: Biceps, Triceps, Abs

How does this look? My philosophy is like this: chest and shoulder exercises are both "push" exercises. Back and trap exercises are both "pull" exercises. Make sense? Please critique and correct at will.

Thanks!

Luca

[ricohelms]

Hey man. I like the split. Its how I got started and I was thinking of going back to it for a change.

I am also thinking of this

Chest/Shoulders/Quads
Back/Bi's/Hams
Arms/Calves

Say a dood in the gym and shot the poop for a minute and he blurted that out and I liked it. Its a 6 day rotation with 2 days off. This way you never do the same body part the same day of the week.