Some thoughts and discussions from me.
Some thoughts and discussions from me.
Good morning
How we all doing today?
I’m feeling pretty darn good, except I did wake up with a little pain in my left hip. A little foam rolling action took care of that, though!
Before we get into today’s post, I gotta show ya’ll last night’s dinner:
Pork chops! I made yet another person’s recipe of apple onion porkchops in the slow cooker:
Guys, these were SO delicious and so easy. I think there were literally 4-5 ingredients. I served mine over sauerkraut, as pictured above. YUM. If you like pork chops, I recommend THESE.
OK! Now let’s get down to business.
Today I want to talk to you about workout splits – namely, my very favorite split – the 3-day, upper/lower/full body split. And bonus: if you stick around for geeky personal trainer split routine talk, I’ll throw in an upper body workout you can print off and take to the gym to get those shoulders, chest, and back burnin’ up
For the sake of post length, I’m going to leave cardio completely out of the equation for today. Today, I want to talk solely about resistance training, where, in my opinion, the guts of a good workout program lies.
First – a note on splits:
In training clients, and in my own workouts, I end up writing a lot of training programs. Most of my clients train with me 3 days a week (some 4 days, and some 2 days.) Regardless of how many days they train with me, I’ll put them on some sort of splits. The type of split varies depending on where they’re at ability-wise, how many days per week they can train with me, how long they can train each day, what their goals are, etc – and varies from:
It can also range from 2-5 day splits, as far as how many days per week the person is training.
Whichever split we choose, I make sure that each muscle group is being stimulated at least twice in a one week period, as that’s the least amount required to see results from resistance training.
My current personal favorite?
The 3-day, upper/lower body split
Reasons:
My other favorite split is a 3-day full body split, meaning full body workouts three days a week, but then so many other factors come into play, so we won’t get into that today.
How about a workout? Shall we?
This workout is an Upper Body day for the 3 day upper/lower body split. Usually my upper body day is Day 2 of my resistance training for the week. This one is to be performed in the gym, with a weight that you can lift about 10-12 times, but not more.
And don’t let it’s pretty colors fool you; it’s not that innocent
Disclaimer: please check with your doctor before beginning any new exercise plan
Exercises:
seated overhead dumbbell press
bench-supported single arm row
modified triceps push ups – bring knees to ground for regression (best triceps exercise alert!)
leg raises – KEEP LOWER BACK PUSHED INTO GROUND AT ALL TIMES<—if you cannot do this, bend the knees
BOSU side crunches – KEEP ABS ACTIVATED BY PRESSING TOP HIP TOWARD THE CEILING
All right, I’m off to find some breakfast! Probably leftover pork chops since my beloved coconut butter still isn’t here yet
Tell me!
How many days per week do you try to do resistance training?
What’s your favorite upper body exercise?
I love splits. I’m doing a 5-day now. My fav upper body move depends on my mood, but I really enjoy seated cable rows.
I try for three days a week. Most of the time it’s in a class and is full body, but if I miss one then I’ll do upper body on my own usually. I get a lot of leg work in from other forms of exercise so I don’t focus on it on my own as much.
I really like the bent over barbell row. Or one-arm dumbbell row. OR tricep kickbacks.
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I really love that you always put a video or picture of the exercise your talking about. I’m so visual. I really like to do full body H.I.I.T workouts incorporating some cardio like skipping rope or burpees, jumping jax that kinda thing. but with my back not totally healed yet I’ve just been doing a lot of yoga and stretching from home. I’m getting anxious to try some strength training again but should probably start at the beginning with body weight only. I haven’t done any real training since summer. and I don’t want another injury.
All I can think about are those caramelized apple-y onions.
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