Originally posted by eagle:
[b]i did 30 mins on chest and 30 mins on legs just now...
The next workout (within the same week but another day) would be 30
mins of back and 30 mins of shoulders...
I train each major muscle group once a week in gym, excluding the
other bodyweight training done over the week... so probably not too
infrequent I guess...
Once a week is pretty infrequent unless you're a high level
athlete, which I'm guessing you're not. I used to get DOMS all the
time when I was on a typical bodypart split...after switching to
full body workouts, practically no DOMS.
I understand what you mean by DOMS... thanks galapogos...
It isn't too much of a problem to me if I train it
on a weekly basis... Other sports do take care of it...
Depending on what sports. Most sports don't have much resistance
to them, and may even promote muscular imbalance - that's where
strength/resistance training comes in. For example, a tennis player
or a baseball pitcher is gonna have imbalances between his
arms/shoulders.
How would you define a split up program? Is my above method ok?
To me, there are 4 major parts to train: Chest, Legs, Back,
Shoulders... So I split them into two pairs...
You're thinking in terms of muscles...that's the pitfall.
Muscles cannot be separated like that. They cannot be isolated, and
they shouldn't be trained that way in most cases. You're also
grouping the stronger half of your body(legs) into one quarter of
your workout. Can't you see that's also as you said, "out of
proportion"? Why is it that all the muscles in your legs gets only
25% of your time, when shoulders, a MUCH smaller muscle group, gets
the same limelight? Why not group it into: glutes, hamstrings,
quads, calves, torso? I'm not saying that's right either, but you
do see the problem in splitting things up this way...
