I’ve been using the generic 5 day split routine doing Legs, Chest and Calves, Back, Shoulders and Arms once a week for the past year. I’ve seen good gains in muscle but I’m really working out for sport enhancement and want to focus on really getting strong and thick. I’ve heard that an Upper/Lower split is great for this purpose.
I’ve created my own program and want to get some feedback.
the question is how many REP’s are you going to be doing with this ?
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Sport enhancement, yet you have no explosive lifts, speed work, or plyo work? This is good if you want to put on size, but you have to switch your programming quite a bit of it’s athletic performance that’s your number one priority.
Also, I wouldn’t recommend deadlifting 2x/week. Once is more than enough.
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What kind of sports? Definitely do some research. Sports-centric lifting is a lot different than BB.
Back in the day, I remember some programs going around for football that focused on Squat, Bench, Dead Lift, and Power Clean. Beyond that you’d do some plyo’s and some core work. We did a rotation of 5x5, 3x3, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I saw later programs that would do a bit of periodization where you’d progress over 12 weeks from 3x12 to doubles and singles. Workouts were three days a week and you’d do the whole body.
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This looks like alot of volume and a bit short on recovery. I would recommend repeating mondays workout on friday and do the other workout on wednesday. Then you can either take the weekend off and start the next week with wednesdays workout or repeat wednesday on saturday, take sunday off and start again on monday.
You don’t mention your reps. You need to have a system.