Good afternoon, ISTtard here. This morning when I woke up I could have opened a short position on ETH but instead I decided to do something about my pathetic life and signed up to my local gym. Anyways, is this a legit workout routine:
>Day 1 Chest/Biceps
>Day 2 45min Lane Swim
>Day 3 Back/Triceps
>Day 4 45min Lane Swim
>Day 5 Shoulder/Leg
>Day 6 45min Lane Swim
>Day 7 Rest/Cheat
Would be an alright routine if you could tell me why the frick you need swimming routines 3 days a week. Also, what the frick is "Cheat"?
I won't do any cardio at the gym so I was thinking swimming would be a good sub. Also I really enjoy swimming. Cheat as in cheat day.
Would it be okay to use protein shake everyday with this routine? Or should I only do it on gym days?
Read the sticky or I'll cut your dick off
Yessir
You'll need a high protein intake every day since you'll probably build more muscle on rest days anyway. Remember, muscle grows with good rest and nutrition, not solely training. Anyway, cardio 3 times a week seems rather excessive. Why not just once or twice a week? That'd grant you 1-2 extra rest days. If you're doing that much cardio to lose weight, you'd probably be better off just eating less high calorie foods.
Also, cheat days are moronic and ruin progress, don't. You can't "outsmart" your body with a cheat day. Just stick to a diet that you can comfortably do for the rest of your life and you'll be fine. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
Inappropriate for a beginner, read the sticky
Also cheat days are fatty cope
>chest/biceps
Seems decent, depends on your priority
Do chest shoulder triceps and back biceps forearms traps, decent enough if u can actually do it for a long time. routine doesnt matter as much as u would think, just get ur ass in the gym every day for years.
do abs/core on leg day too
Kind of moronic. I'd recommend doing Chest/Triceps and Back/Biceps instead of the combo you listed, since chest and triceps work in tandem with each other, as does back and biceps.
Regarding legs/shoulders, I used to do that as it fit my schedule better, but you'd be better off doing anterior and medial shoulders on your chest/tri day (push muscles) while doing posterior delts and traps on back/bi day (pull muscles).
Can't give any input on swimming since I don't swim. It is a very solid workout though.
How much training have you done these last 3 months?
>routine, no exercises, no sets/rep range
Pretty much worthless info, anon.
Buy SOXL and go homegym masterrace
> Cheat MEAL
Fine, your mental health will thank you
> Cheat DAY
You are destroying your progress
>implying a dumb beginner like you will stick to 6 workouts a week
nope
splits are for roidtroonys
I think for a complete belgiene a better approach would be a 3 day upper lower with two upper days per week. And diversify your cardio to adapt it to the rest of your training.
Something like this
>upper
>Rowing Machine LISS
>lower
>swimming
>upper
>sprints
Look at west side for skinny bastards as a rough template but make the bi and tri and rear and mid delt exercises on every upper day
Yeah tard is fricking right. What in the frick are your stats? Goals? You ever lift before or a total newbie?