How was your first workout plan?

[blissinanarchy1]

When new to working out, and those who got serious into it, how did you organize and schedule muscle groups?
Was it like "Arm day Monday, Tuesday will be abs" etc?
Or do you do it like "Biceps, Calves, Abs Monday, Triceps, quads, pecs Tuesday"?

[TheUniqueOne96]

When I first started, I were completely clueless, so I relied on a friend and started training 5 days a week, doing a bro split.

M - Chest & a bit of abs
T - Back
W - Legs
T - Shoulders
F - Biceps and triceps

Sometimes we'd alter the training days and switch up e. g. doing legs on Friday, etc.

The longer I went, the more I learned, as I started to do my own research and I do think I were over-training, as I were hitting certain muscles on consecutive days.

[Paul09]

I use to always do 2 ish muscle groups on each my work out days. Example.. biceps and and one day. Legs and triceps another, and chest , deltoids another. You can pay a pro to make you up a plan. Or just look it up yourself. There's google, YouTube and apps. You need at least 48 hours to test each muscle group.

[Anonymous]

I focused on compound movements and full body workouts or “push-pull” days in the beginning. Didn’t start working out specific muscle groups and having “chest day”, “back day”, “glutes day” etc until a year after I started lifting

[blissinanarchy1]

I honestly don't remember how I started. My days always got different muscle groups from each part of my body. Once I'm done a set of biceps, I'll immediately get into leg presses, and then crunches. The time I take to complete the other sets is my rest time for the others.

[Opinion Owner]

Oh yeah supersets are awesome! I think as long as you can stick to a routine that you enjoy then that’s all that matters

[Truthatanycost]

Full body one day on, one day off combined with a calorie surplus when possible. if you look at how the body functions, everything works together...

[blissinanarchy1]

Full body workouts for me aren't practical. Targeting every single muscle group for each body part seems like a very time consuming process to me.

[Truthatanycost]

Full body makes use of compound movements that target multiple muscle groups at a time. It's not time consuming. It should save time. For example when you do a squat you work the quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, abdominals and calves. Now consider the number of muscles a bicep curl that goes into a shoulder press targets.

[blissinanarchy1]

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not super new to this, it's been about 8 months, and I only go about 4 times a week.

[Truthatanycost]

I used to lift and have tried all kinds of other stuff but found it too time consuming. Now I only trai full body using the T2 isotrainer. It's only weakness is lack of heavy dead lift. But for everything else it's great and I've already built new muscle mass.

The metal housing is a force multiplier and there is constant tension throughout the entire range of motion.

https://youtu.be/9hbA_cpWCx4