Back 2 Basics

For the last few weeks I've been trying something a little different with my training.  I've changed up my split a bit and I'm now using a five day rotation, where shoulders are trained with chest and biceps, hamstrings are trained with quadriceps, and triceps are trained with back.  This split also includes two full rest days, and the increased recovery between training sessions has really paid off.  This type of grouping in the split minimizes shoulder and elbow stress, as those bodyparts with overlapping stress zones have generally been grouped together, or on opposite ends of the rotation.  I'm also sort of going back to basics with this recent change, and really trying to perfect some of the more traditional compound movements that I've neglected in the past.  For example: decline bench, traditional squats, one-arm row, and even french press.  Time to dust off those old favorites!

Splitting the Difference

Recently my training partner and I had a little discussion.  It went from pre-exhaustion theories to training splits to bio-mechanics.  Example: you'd think that pre-exhausting the biceps before a back workout would be a good way to help isolation, but I don't use that technique, do you?  Or training back and biceps together: makes sense and a lot of people do it, but I never do.  Why not?