Its Bulking Time - Paul's Ultimate Workout Split

                                            

Its that time of the year again.  Just when I thought I was on a roll with cutting, I found my self with a roll with butter.  I find my myself wanting to lift and eat more everyday.  A few months ago I was down to about 177, I weighed myself this morning and I'm 191.  At this point my diet has gone to hell, and the past fews weeks I've only made it to the gym a few times.  I literally just ate two sandwiches from Burger King, onions rings fries, and chicken fries.  For lunch today I had pizza, actually lots of pizza.  My diet is currently unstoppable in the sense that it can't be stopped.  At this rate I'll be 200 in no time.  However, the worst part about the whole thing is that I lost my motivation to go to the gym, and also coincidentally my motivation to shave...


Luckily this week I got to work out with my good friend Pat and after two insanely intense (alliteration) workouts its safe to say that I'm ready to get serious with the gym again.  But I'm still going to hold off with shaving for a few more weeks.  A few months back I spent a majority of one of my three hour night classes trying to create the perfect workout schedule.  What I ended up with is something I would consider as good as its going to get, for me at least.  I decided to go back to a compound split where complimentary body parts are worked out on the same day.  Since I am bulking, the split calls for every muscle group to be trained twice a week.  What I added into the mix is that on the second day of training for each muscle group the primary and secondary muscles are switched.  So for example, on day one which is chest and tris chest is trained for the majority of the workout with the addition of few tri exercises.  Now when the next chest day comes along, tris will be trained for the majority of the time with chest as the secondary.  The split is an eight day split with six working days, and one day of cardio and one day of rest.  It turns out to be three days on, one day off, threes days on, one day off, and so on.

I spent a lot of time trying to get all the details right with this split.  When reading the split the numbers I came up with represent the number of sets along with the corresponding number of reps.  The only other instruction is up or down arrows which mean either add more weight or decrease weight.  I know what some of you will be thinking, shouldn't I have included how much weight you should lift or at least the percentages of a one rep max?  The answer from me is going to be "No."  I personally believe that its better to go into the gym with as much uncertainty as possible.  Go into a set with a number of reps in mind, and and just add the weight that you feel you should lift.  I was never a big fan of workout programs that specifically told you what weight you have to lift and how many reps.  But again thats just me, everyone does it differently theres no right answer to this stuff.

The only thing that I could have improved with this split would have been to make it completely dynamic, which is something I have been considering for a while.  Unfortunately to make a truly dynamic split, for you idiots out there that means a split that keeps changing, I would have had to make a 90 days split.  Which would have had different days and exercises every week in different orders, never repeating.  I didn't have enough time in class to make such a split.  But I do have the first split on here for any of you guys looking for a split, or maybe just a few ideas.  I posted two links below.  One is an excel document which can be downloaded, the other is in web page form which can be viewed through a browser.  Like I said this program isn't too specific, and theres really no science behind it, only legend.  Let me know what you guys think.  And hopefully since I put this all in writing I'll be all little more motivated this time around.

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