Need /adv/ on weight lifting and I hate Reddit so here I am.
Been lifting for a few months (5), made slow progress. 132lbs > 150lbs. I'm contempt with this. However I think I fucked up with my routine, im experiencing a plateau so soon. Routine went like this...
>Monday
Chest and Legs
>Tuesday
Back and shoulders
>Wednesday
Rest
>Thursday
Arms (Bi's and Tri's)
>Friday
Rest
>Saturday
Chest and Legs (Rinse and repeat)
My average workout was about 1hr30mins, incorporated the major compounds (except Deadlift)
Anyway the reason I think I fucked up... I'm still learning and recently read an article about the duration of muscle protein synthesis duration (48hrs avg), which makes me think a fault in this routine is it's potential for overtraining a muscle, especially triceps. I'm hitting certain muscles often within a day of one another. I've noticed my leg developement has been linear so far (consistently twice a week hit only), but most others are slowing to a crawl the heavier I get. I know gains come harder the more we go, but I'm far too novice to be experiencing any severe plateau.
Regardless I'm moving away from this routine, more info on request (PPLxPPL)
>Tl;dr
>I think I've been overtraining plz tell me if I'm right or wrong.
>>42328147
you aren't getting enough stimulation with this shit. legs are huge muscles so maybe 1x per week is enough to hit them and still have some gains but not for other body parts
you aren't overtraining, you are undertraining.
switch to U/L like candito linear or candito 6w (hyper/str)
>>42328147
this is why novices shouldnt write their own programming. like the other anon said; youre not overtraining, youre undertraining
do full body 3x or an upper/lower or even a ppl if you want, but just get it from a reputable source, dont write it yourself. if you want to learn about programming I suggest you look at JTS or renaissance periodization on youtube
>>42328167
>>42328213
I was hitting them twice week, Day 1 - Chest and Legs... Day 6 - Chest and Legs. A 5 day gap, or is this still not enough?
>>42328247
you seem to understand that the process of building muscle lasts for ~48hrs. the logical response to that is to train muscles every 48hrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7b5hOWfwdc&t=16s
also, your current program is some sort of brosplit, which is inherently retarded, but yours is worse because you dont undedrstand what muscles are being worked. for instance; you have chest, triceps and shoulders all on different days even though in these are all used in bench variations etc. same with biceps and "back" on rows/chins etc
a good frequency for each lift would be: 3x bench, 2x squat and 1x dl for instance
>>42328247
5 day gap for someone natural is too much. anything more than 2 days is already pushing it unless you are lifting some insane heavy weight
>>42328147
you'd know about it if you were overtraining, you'd feel like shit, all your lifts would drop and you'd start to injure yourself lifting
I literally do deadlifts/bench every single day and I've been fine. They keep me going bc I love those workouts
you fucking autist its content not contempt
>>42328310
The 48 hours thing is a meme if you do compound exercises.