For back, can I split widening/thickening?

[Milhouse Van Houten]

I have been ignoring my back's thickness for a while.

So, my question would be, is there any draw back from splitting back widening and thickening?

I sorta of cant do them in the same day.

Thanks in advance.

 

[semag]

huh?

 

[MrFitness880]

the best way to add mass is to focus your efforts around heavy compound movements (duh) - i really dont know how you would effectively separate thickness/width in a back workout

why ? how did you plan to do it?

and how come you cant get them both into the same workout?

do you do:
deadlifts
bb / db rows
pull-ups
t-bar rows

if not , what?

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

Originally posted by MrFitness880
the best way to add mass is to focus your efforts around heavy compound movements (duh) - i really dont know how you would effectively separate thickness/width in a back workout

why ? how did you plan to do it?

and how come you cant get them both into the same workout?

do you do:
deadlifts
bb / db rows
pull-ups
t-bar rows

if not , what?

I do chin up with wide and narrow grips on one day; next day, I would do Bi and chest.

Then, I would do the T bar/ seated rows on my tri days. ( so I hit both Bi and tri on that day.)

if I do rows owith my Chin up, I cant straight bar curl the next day with all out effort.

 

[MrFitness880]

i would suggest you look into changing your split

i would never do bi after a back day i would want more rest

and you do t-bar rows on tricep day? you might want to reconsider some of this

my split looks like:

1 - chest / bi
2 - legs
3 - rest
4 - shoulders / tri
5 - back
6 - rest
7 - rest

what does a current week in the weight room look like for you?

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

Originally posted by MrFitness880
i would suggest you look into changing your split

i would never do bi after a back day i would want more rest

and you do t-bar rows on tricep day? you might want to reconsider some of this

my split looks like:

1 - chest / bi
2 - legs
3 - rest
4 - shoulders / tri
5 - back
6 - rest
7 - rest

what does a current week in the weight room look like for you?

my split used to look like this:

1) tri/hamstring/calf
2) off
3) squad/shoulders/ minor bi
4) off
5) back/ widening only
6) chest/ bi
7) off

now i am trying to change.

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

oh, BTW, the reason that I can train bi after back widening w/o any problem is that now I have changed my grip that allows force transfer directly to the back rather passing by bi.

I wrap my thumb with other 4 fingers, so bi usage is at minium.

 

[semag]

wow mr. fitness, cool to see you do my exact same split.

I do it in a different order

1 - back/deads
2 - shoulders/tri
3 - rest
4 - legs
5 - chest / bi
6 - rest
7 - rest

 

[MrFitness880]

Only...you're got it backwards lol !

Nice, i've found that split works perfectly for me

so MVH - have you decided what you want to do yet?