About Brian Expertise I can help set up a weightlifting program, give suggestions on specific exercises and how to deal with injuries. We can discuss your goals and effective ways to work towards them. I compete at powerlifting, and have been weightlifting for over 15 years.
Experience 15 years weightlifting experience, including competitive powerlifting.
Question Age 42, Male, lifting for several months.
I currently have this routine
Mon-Off, Tues Chest/Bicep, Weds Legs/Shoulders,
Thur Back Tricep, Fri Chest/Bicep,
Sat Legs/Shoulders, Sun Back/Tricep.
For each body part I do four exercises, each on has about 4-5 sets, each set 5-12 reps.
I includes some ab and cardio a few times a week. I was wondering if I am overtraining.
Answer You might want to re-work this a little so you don't have biceps & back on consecutive days; and the same for triceps and chest. One way to do that would be to work biceps & back on the same day, triceps and chest on the same day.
I see you're trying to separate these on purpose. But it's really worse to work them consecutive days. Maybe an idea, since you are doing each muscle group twice per week, would be to on the first round do chest then tri's, and on the second round, do tri's then chest?
