I'm not done with the slimming down yet, especially since my initial goal was about 210, and my current goal is 200, but I think when I get down around 200 I'm going to want to lower it further. But still, I'm getting to the point where I need a plan for building muscle back up once I get to whatever my end goal may be.
This is not my first rodeo, I worked out constantly in high school. But unlike back then, I have knowledge about how much diet (and especially protein intake) effects your body's reaction to the workouts, I know a bit more about routines, and I'm just generally more ready to actually build some real muscle. However, I still don't really know how I want to do this.
I do know some things:
- I want to do 5 days a week - Mon-Fri.
- I want to keep Tuesday and Thursday as purely cardio days.
- That will make sure that my cardio exercise doesn't fall by the wayside, and it will give me at least 1 day of rest between each muscle group.
- I know how to split up my workout days by muscle group
- Legs
- Arms/shoulders
- Chest/back/core
- I don't do a whole lot of core exercise, but I figured I'd put it with chest/back
- Arms cannot be immediately preceding chest/back
- When I do arms before chest/back, the residual weakness/soreness in my arms affects the chest and back exercises.
- Where do I put legs?
- I know that legs take the longest to heal, because you are using them constantly to walk. Do I want to do Monday and be sore most of the week? Do Wednesday, and be relatively normal for the weekend? Or do Friday and be sore all weekend?
So here's a couple possible layouts:
| Mon | Wed | Fri | |
| Option 1 | Legs | Chest/back | Arms |
| Option 2 | Chest/back | Legs | Arms |
| Option 3 | Arms | Legs | Chest/back |
| Option 4 | Chest/back | Arms | Legs |
Any valuable insight as to which one would be the best option and why?
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