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Chest-Leg

This section will be used to talk about Chest-Leg Bodybuilding Routines, which are very useful to improve your physical condition

What is a Chest-Leg Routine?

It is a 2-frequency weekly routine focused on the muscle groups from the upper and lower parts of the body. This would also be the case of a chest-back routine.

Each day, we will alternate between lower and upper body instead of focusing on the same muscle group. For instance, that would be the case of doing just chest or back.

Bench Press

Chest-leg training twice a week

Chest-Leg Routine Scheme

Monday – Upper body
Tuesday – Lower body
Wednesday – Rest
Thursday – Upper body
Friday – Lower body
Saturday and sunday – Rest

We can take advantage of the resting days to do other activities, like swimming, biking…

What are the Advantages of the Chest-Leg Routine?

Improving the Volume and Frequency variables regarding both the upper and lower body parts
Allowing an efficient weight progression
Helping us focus on a muscle group, even more than full body routines
Gaining strength and improving the physical composition
A “more pleasant” routine than a split routine
A “more natural” training scheme based on “Push Pull Leg”

Squats

Who can benefit from following a Chest-Leg Routine?

All those who are medium or advanced users
Athletes who want to follow a parallel routine to complement their sport

Hypertrophy Routine, Chest-Leg. 3rd Week

Javier Colomer Chest-Leg 0

The last week or third week of the Chest-Leg routine (first micro-cycle) from the Hypertrophy Routine The following weeks will consist of a Full-Body routine, reducing the workout frequency to 3 days. For now, we will maintain our F2 pattern both for the upper and lower body. As always, we are going to add new things to the routine in …

Hypertrophy Routine, Chest-Leg. 2nd Week

Javier Colomer Chest-Leg 0

Let’s continue with our Hypertrophy Routine, now onto the Chest-Leg 2nd Week, there is still a third one coming. Stay tuned! As always, before revealing the routine, let’s have a look at some concepts and ideas. As we advance on this hypertrophy macrocycle made up of to strength mesocycles, we will get closer to pure hypertrophy with this Chest-Leg routine. …

Hypertrophy Routine, Chest-Leg. 1st Week

Javier Colomer Chest-Leg 0

In this article, we will focus on the Macrocycle in our muscle growth phase which is mainly made up by two strategies: What is a Chest-Leg routine? This type of routine consists of changing the workout each day. We will focus either on the upper or lower part of the body instead of a single muscle group. That would be …