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Personal trainer gold coast -  A dog training split is basically what you train or what type of training you do on any given day of the week. For instance if 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 experimented with a number of different training splits - good quality, others terrible. Here are some of my favorite splits I use for athletic training, fat reduction and rehabilitation that you are a lot more than welcome to take or adapt for your own personel purposes.

Before I go further, there a few fundamental rules I have that you should know before designing an exercise split.

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

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

The third is that the chest can usually handle more load compared to legs because the muscle groups aren’t as large and can recover quicker. This means it is possible to train them more often with your training split.

The fourth rule is the fact that I do not to regularly pair two big compound movements in one 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 inside the session. NB: Check out Bodybuiliding Split #1 to see how I have done this.

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

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The sixth is that you simply should design your split around a 7 day cycle because this is what most people will naturally manage to fit their schedule in to the easiest. I am not a fan of shorter training splits (e.g. 5 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 allow you to organize your training

Check out these possible training splits for different scenarios that again you are more than welcome to take and accommodate 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: Upper Body 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: Weak Points (e.g. the body part the trainee feels lets them done the most)

Sunday: Off

 

Bodybuilding #3 (Can only train 4x week)

Monday: Chest & Hamstrings

Tuesday: Off

Wednesday: Back & Shoulders

Thursday: Quads & Calves

Friday: Off

Saturday: Arms, Forearms & Abs

Sunday: Off

 

Fat reduction #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

Tuesday: Off

Wednesday: Lower body

Thursday: Off

Friday: Chest

Saturday: Off

Sunday: Off

Week 2

Monday: Lower body

Tuesday: Off

Wednesday: Torso

Thursday: Off

Friday: Lower body

Saturday: Off

Sunday: Off

 

Fat 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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