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How do you fit shoulders into your routine?

Dedicated day just for Shoulders

25% (7)

With Chest/Tri's on a 3 day Push/Pull routine

22% (6)

With Legs on a 3 day Push/Pull routine

25% (7)

Part of a Full Body routine

0% (0)

Some other split/combination

25% (7)

Total Votes: 27

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CitizenKane

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How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 18:55

Everybody seems to have conflicting ideas about this, so what in your experience has proven to be the most effective time to train shoulders?

I voted for option 2, but that's just because it's the only way I've trained shoulders really for any length of time, not because I believe it's the best. In truth I have no idea what is the best, which is the purpose of this thread!

(It'll prob be a while before we get a significant number of votes in this poll but I'm really interested in this so please vote!)

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Owen Total Posts : 1001 Reward points : 3180 Joined: 22/04/2008	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 19:09 shoulders and tri's for me mate

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Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 19:11

I have tried two methods:

When I am busy and can not get to the gym as often

I do a three day split: Chest & Triceps, Back & Biceps and Legs & Shoulders.

When I have time to go 6 days a week then I do them all on individual days.

Chest,Biceps,Legs,Triceps,Back and Shoulders...

Personally I prefer the individual days option... that way your muscles are repaired by the time you train it again and you can train each one till complete exhaustion rather than being aware that you have another muscle group to train after.

donnyboy Total Posts : 2306 Reward points : 7029 Joined: 05/01/2004 Location: Newark England	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 19:22 Chest & Abs Back & Bi's Shoulders & Tri's Legs Seems to work best for me http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=4648764 Progress Journal

CitizenKane Total Posts : 10845 Reward points : 3053 Joined: 05/04/2009	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 19:44 Shoulders and Tri's eh? Interesting... JOURNAL "I went on to lift 128 kg for 1 rep with extremely poor form but I was lucky enough to survive" - Rob Reynolds

angelfan Total Posts : 1383 Reward points : 3723 Joined: 16/10/2007	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 01 November 2009 21:23 Legs and Shoulders are the way to go My body is like a Walking Chemical Factory.

powerhouse_ad Total Posts : 1032 Reward points : 4979 Joined: 21/05/2006	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 13:13 Mon - Lower Back/Traps/Hams/Calves Tues - Chest/Triceps Weds - Upper Back/Biceps Thurs - Quads/Deltoids

naththebeast Total Posts : 4826 Reward points : 3441 Joined: 17/06/2008 Location: Brighton	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 15:56 i used to ahve them with chest + triceps but trying a completely new split of Chest + arms legs + back + shoulders alternating each training day, seeing how it goes, just fancied trying something that ive not really seen before

yungdest81 Total Posts : 4888 Reward points : 2387 Joined: 21/05/2009 Location: Essex	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 16:02 Back and shoulders. Weight: 175 lbs Height: 6 Ft Body Fat: 15.8% (Cutting) Journal (New & improved 115KG Bench!)

MetalMoby Total Posts : 330 Reward points : 1967 Joined: 07/10/2009	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 16:12 With Legs as part of a pull/push/legs routine.

James M Total Posts : 652 Reward points : 7544 Joined: 10/04/2003 Location: United Kingdom	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 17:58 Chest and tri's

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Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 18:50

donnyboy

Chest & Abs
Back & Bi's
Shoulders & Tri's
Legs

Seems to work best for me

That seems a popular routine but is in fact not one I would recommend if you wanted to keep your shoulders healthy. Many suffer from shoulder injuries doing this type of routines and have you wondered why?

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KILO* Total Posts : 97 Reward points : 3155 Joined: 14/10/2007 Location: South London	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 19:02 Mon-Chest Tues-Off Wed-Back Thurs-Shoulders Fri-Arms Sat-Legs Sun-Off Train quite high volume and so this allows less time in gym. Am also too tired to train any other bodypart afterwards.

AWG Total Posts : 7755 Reward points : 3733 Joined: 20/07/2007 Location: Trent Poly, Nottingham	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 19:32 Train Shoulders and Legs on Friday, shoulders only takes 15 mins usually End of Cycle Review+Pictures Plyoathlete Crew Muay Thai Crew

All4n Total Posts : 4680 Reward points : 5308 Joined: 29/04/2006	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 20:52 Either 3 day split.. chest/tri back/bi legs/shoulders or 4 day split seperating legs/shoulders. Usually 3 day split due to not having the time tho. I used to train chest/shoulder/tri but found shoulders feeling too weak/fatigued after chest, so prefer them on legs day now.

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Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 02 November 2009 21:16

loudmouth

donnyboy

Chest & Abs
Back & Bi's
Shoulders & Tri's
Legs

Seems to work best for me

That seems a popular routine but is in fact not one I would recommend if you wanted to keep your shoulders healthy. Many suffer from shoulder injuries doing this type of routines and have you wondered why?

Many may do but I don't , therefore I never bothered to wonder why

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MMA4life Total Posts : 2287 Reward points : 3949 Joined: 28/05/2008 Location: Kings Lynn	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 03 November 2009 15:16 Workout 1: Squat, Bench Pullups Workout 2: Deadlfit, OHP, Row My Journal

Drew Price Total Posts : 6100 Reward points : 5289 Joined: 02/11/2005 Location: Healthy Action Nutriton Consultancy	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 03 November 2009 16:00 Double post. <message edited by drewsky on 03 November 2009 16:04> Drew Price BSc MSc Nutritionist and S&C coach facebook.com/DrewPriceNutritionist

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Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 03 November 2009 16:02

With shoulders you'll get almost as many ways of doing it as replies! Why?

Lots of angles
Lots of cross over with other body parts
Lots of variety of volume and intensities work....

Here's and example of an intensification program I have used with a client before who had poor development but lots of rooms for recovery.

MON: Chest and Back, shoulders heavy
Push presses, military presses, snatch pulls all low volume & high weight
TUES: Legs: hip dominant, calves 1, core1
THURS: shoulders volume, arms
Higher rep combination of super and giant sets: front/side/rear raises and lighter presses etc
FRI: Legs: Qaud dom., calves 2, core 2

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Oaken Total Posts : 9852 Reward points : 6510 Joined: 23/09/2004	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 03 November 2009 16:07 Chest and bi's Legs Shoulders (and traps) back and tri's

22jasper Total Posts : 257 Reward points : 2262 Joined: 16/05/2009	Re:How do you fit shoulders into your routine? - 03 November 2009 17:30 Mo legs tues chest/biceps thur shoulders/traps/calves fri back and triceps

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