what are the best muscle groups to pair up?

Question

I'm just woundering what muscles are best to pair up in a gym session, at the moment i train chest and back on a monday, legs on a tuesday, rest on wednesday, shoulders and triceps on thursday and biceps on friday. I'm just woundering if these are the best muscles to pair?

Answer 1

When you work your chest, you will also work part of your triceps and front deltoids (shoulders). When you work your back, you will also work part of your biceps and rear deltoids. Therefore, you have to determine what type of workout you want.

I assume you are aware the muscles require 48 hours (average) to rest and rebuild from a hard workout. Therefore, let's take your chest and back workout. As you do them, you are also working your triceps and biceps. Not to their full capacity, but they can and do get a workout. Therefore, you are working them twice a week. Since you are skipping days before you actually work the arms, you are providing them with ample rest and causing no harm. If you were to work the arms the next day from a chest/back workout, you would eventually cuase a burnout and fatigue of the muscles. Your workout schedule is a good one if you don't mind the double workout for the arms and delts. If you only want to workout one muscle group a week, you could try chest/triceps one day, back/biceps another, shoulders/legs another or shoulders one, legs the next and so on. Again, it depends what you want in your workout.

I prefer your method because I like to work on my arms a bit more and doing chest/back one day and arms another provides a little more workout for them.

Answer 2

I heard the best concept is the push, pull, push concept. Which is: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps (push) Back and Biceps (pull) And Legs (push)
The whole meaning of push,pull,push is recovery. Since when you work chest, you work shoulders and triceps. It's definately a grueling routine. But you switch up, which body part you work on first. Usually every two weeks. For example. Chest, Shoulder, Tricep. Shoulder, Chest, Tricep, you get the ideal.
Hope this helps out man, enjoy the training!

Answer 3

It's always best to work larg to small, as the large muscles play a support role in all other excersise you wouldn't want them to be tired already. since chest and back are the bigges muscles I do them together, the next day shoulders and traps
the next day, biceps and triceps, then leg day!

Answer 4

Pairing Muscle Groups

Answer 5

Your brain and your tongue. You shouldn't use one without the other.