So I suddenly hit a wall??

[LegioTitan]

Howdy howdy folks,

So I was making great progress on my chest but in my past two sessions I've hit some sort of barrier. I fail early before even locking it out.

In the space of two months I went from doing my last set of decline dumbbell presses at 60's to finishing up at 95's. I have been pushing so hard so fast because I want the BP record for my weight class before deployment.

I was doing a three on and two day off routine but I started to get tired so I thought I'd switch to a one on one off schedule. While I do feel better overall I think that it has negatively affected my chest day because I have put my arm day too close to it.

What I want to do is go like this. Chest/Upper Back-Off-Legs/Mid-Off-Arms/Lower Back-Off-Off-Repeat.
But with that I am worried about the fact that there will be a whopping 5 days in between chest routines. Can I really experience growth with that kind of downtime??

Any help is greatly appreciated guys, erm and gals?

On a side note since switching to preachers from regular curls I've seen definite growth in my normally lackluster Bis. So big thanks for the recommendation to switch it up.

[Karl]

Well you can't continually get stronger at a particualer movement forever, sometime you need to switch out an exercise for something else.
5 day's should be fine most people only train a bodypart once every 7 days.

To really give you any advice I would need to know how many sets, rep range you are using

[LegioTitan]

I currently do 5 sets of Decline with the weight increasing and the reps dropping. Right now it is 80's x 14, 85's x 12, 90's x 10, 95s' x 8. Usually I do two sets of the 80's at 14 reps after a little warm up with a bar or some pushups.

After this I do my close grip rows then I move onto 5 sets of flys.
I have been doing this for about 4 months now give or take. Think its time to completely re-do my whole chest routine??

Thanks

[Karl]

IMHO if you are training body parts frequesntly(every 4 to 5 days) I wouldn't do that many sets. Do your warmups then hit the heavy weight maybe 2 sets.. I am using DC training now, not sure if you are familiar, but you up the intensity and frequency and drop the volume.