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Gold coast personal training - A dog training split is basically what you train or which training you do on virtually any day of the week. For instance should you train your legs on Monday, back on Wednesday and chest on Friday, that you will find an example of a training split. In the never-ending mission for enhance our training results, athletes, fitness enthusiasts and bodybuilders have tried a number of different training splits - some really good, others terrible. Here are some of the best splits I use for athletic training, weight-loss and rehabilitation that you are greater than welcome to take or adapt for your purposes.



Before I go further, there a few simple rules I have that you should know before designing a workout split.



The first is that simple things perform best so don’t make it anymore complicated than need be.



The second (and this one relates especially to athletes) is you should always train speed before strength and strength before endurance in the week.



The third is that the upper body can usually handle more load as opposed to legs because the muscle groups aren’t as large and can recover quicker. This means you'll be able to train them more often inside your training split.



The fourth rule is always that I do not to regularly pair two big compound movements in a single session e.g. a the bench press with a pull up. By avoiding this, it allows the trainee to pay attention more on the dominant exercise within the session. NB: Check out Bodybuiliding Split #1 to determine how I have done this.



Your fifth is that you want to train antagonistic muscle tissues in your sessions 60-80% of the time e.g. if you train the biceps, you also train the triceps or if perhaps you train the quads, you also train the hamstrings in the same session. By achieving this, you get more overall work completed in the session and you will get stronger much faster due to a neat nervous system function called reciprocal inhibition. However you can’t do that all the time especially if you start using the Olympic lifts and you will see how I have slightly modified the splits in Bodybuilder Split #2 and Fat Loss #3 to reflect this.

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The sixth is basically that you should design your split around a 7 day cycle since this is what most people will naturally be capable of fit their schedule in the easiest. I am not a fan of shorter training splits (e.g. Five days) because most people (even elite athletes that do not have to work) are simply preprogrammed being working on 7 day cycles.





Unlike training the splits, training splits help you organize your training



So check out these possible training splits many different scenarios that again you might be more than welcome to take and conform to your own training:



Football (AFL, League, Union, Soccer) Off Season #1 (Can train twice daily)



Monday AM: Speed



Monday PM: Lower Body Weights



Tuesday AM: Chest muscles Weights



Tuesday PM: Interval Training/Strongman Training



Wednesday: Off



Thursday AM: Speed



Thursday PM: Lower Body Weights



Friday AM: Torso Weights



Friday PM: Interval Training/Strongman Training



Saturday: Aerobic Training



Sunday: Off



 



Football (AFL, League, Union, Soccer) Off Season #2 (Can only train once daily)



Monday: Speed



Tuesday: Chest & Biceps



Wednesday: Legs



Thursday: Interval training workout



Friday: Back &Triceps



Saturday: Aerobic Training



Sunday: Off



 



Bodybuilding #1



Monday: Chest & Biceps



Tuesday: Quadriceps & Knee Flexors (e.g. hamstring curl)



Wednesday: Shoulders & Calves



Thursday: Back & Triceps



Friday: Hip Extensors (e.g. deadlift) & Abs



Saturday: Weak spots (e.g. the body part the trainee feels allows them to done the most)



Sunday: Off



 



Bodybuilding #2



Monday: Chest & Shoulders



Tuesday: Quads



Wednesday: Back & Calves



Thursday: Hamstrings & Abs



Friday: Arms



Saturday: Flaws (e.g. the body part the trainee feels allows them to done the most)



Sunday: Off



 



Bodybuilding #3 (Are only able to train 4x week)



Monday: Chest & Hamstrings



Tuesday: Off



Wednesday: Back & Shoulders



Thursday: Quads & Calves



Friday: Off



Saturday: Arms, Forearms & Abs



Sunday: Off



 



Weight loss #1



Monday: Upper



Tuesday: Lower



Wednesday: Off



Thursday: Upper



Friday: Lower



Saturday: Interval/Aerobic Training



Sunday: Off



 



Weight loss #2 (Can only train 3x week)



Week 1



Monday: Chest muscles



Tuesday: Off



Wednesday: Lower body



Thursday: Off



Friday: Upper body



Saturday: Off



Sunday: Off



Week 2



Monday: Lower body



Tuesday: Off



Wednesday: Chest muscles



Thursday: Off



Friday: Lower body



Saturday: Off



Sunday: Off



 



Weight-loss #3



Monday: Quads, Back & Biceps



Tuesday: Hamstrings, Chest & Triceps



Wednesday: Off



Thursday: Quads, Back & Biceps



Friday: Hamstrings, Chest & Triceps



Saturday: Interval/Aerobic Training



Sunday: Off





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