[Rowboat]

If you're just starting out, focus on compound lifts roughly 3 times a week, rather than doing any sort of split routine. I was making barely any progress on a split and moved onto a more strength training routine and it's helped heaps.

[x5_Bard]

Originally Posted by Rowboat

If you're just starting out, focus on compound lifts roughly 3 times a week, rather than doing any sort of split routine. I was making barely any progress on a split and moved onto a more strength training routine and it's helped heaps.

Don't start out with compound lifts, technique is critical and if you don't know what you are doing you will injure yourself. I'm surprised you weren't making any gains on a split routine, were you using supersets?

As with anything you need to push yourself, if you are comfortably making your sets you wont get the gains.

Also avoid too many chest exercises, it is a great way to ruin your posture. A general rule of thumb is to do 2x the work on your back than you did on your front. And don't be like those guys I always see in photos at stereos. Leg day should be the most important day of the week!

[Metalcore]

Originally Posted by x5_Bard

Don't start out with compound lifts, technique is critical and if you don't know what you are doing you will injure yourself. I'm surprised you weren't making any gains on a split routine, were you using supersets?

As with anything you need to push yourself, if you are comfortably making your sets you wont get the gains.

Also avoid too many chest exercises, it is a great way to ruin your posture. A general rule of thumb is to do 2x the work on your back than you did on your front. And don't be like those guys I always see in photos at stereos. Leg day should be the most important day of the week!

I agree. Technique is so importaint. I spent my first month on weights which i could do comfortably but just focusing on technique with my friend giving me advice on what i'm doing wrong. Now that i have good technique i'm upping the weight each time i go and will be doing this for prob the next 2-3 weeks until i reach my max. Was good spending that time on technique as well as now my body is used to the gym and can actually operate the next day.

Your right about the back being importaint esp for posture. gotta make sure you work the back as thats where all the transfer of musclar power will happen (esp for the legs) so if you want to be able to use all them muscles for real world apllications and not just for show gotta have that back strong!