My Weekly Workout Routine

My Workout Split!

I think one of the most important things about working out is a specific workout split that works for you. A workout split is basically just your workout schedule and what you will be working out each day. For me personally I see a lot of growth doing a 5 day workout split, with 2 days off. This has been a huge work in progress, especially because I am so used to going to the gym every day or 6 days a week so this has been an adjustment but my body responds really well to it. I do 2 leg days a week, 2 upper body days a week, and one isolated cardio day. I will go more into depth about each of these below, so lets just get into my split!


MONDAY-  LEGS
Every Monday I like to get in my first leg day. I do this because legs are one of the harder workouts that I do and if I don't get it done on Mondays I can struggle to get two leg day sessions in each week. Also, legs have always been one of my least favorite body parts to work (I have no idea why) but recently I have started liking my leg workouts, so I'm trying to live it up. I usually try to work both my quads and hamstrings on Mondays, but there are times that I am feeling like isolating my quads and so I will usually try to isolate my quads on one of my leg days, and then on the next leg day I will isolate my hamstrings and glutes. 

TUESDAY- SHOULDERS AND TRICEPS (and maybe a little chest... maybe)
MY FAVORITE DAY! Yes, I love shoulder day. I gotta get those nice shoulder boulders to emphasize my stubborn arms if you know what I mean. But seriously, my arms for some reason LOVE to hold all my fat so I have to work shoulders to make them look a bit smaller, plus who doesn't love those nice caps? I like to separate my shoulders and triceps together because most of these motions are considered a pushing movement, and vise versa with back and biceps, most of these motions/exercises are considered pulling motions. So Tuesdays are my Push Days. 

WEDNESDAY- CARDIO
Oh yes the dreaded cardio. I have made a cardio post earlier on this blog, and I stay true to what I said. You need to find a cardio that you love and can stick to. Lately, I have been doing HIIT. My usual routine is about a 15 minute HIIT workout, that is 30 seconds on 30 seconds off with 5 different exercises and after I do all 5 of those, I rest for 1-2 minutes and repeat those exercises for another 2 sets. I have absolutely loved doing this, it's great because you can switch it up every week to whatever you want. Also, if you want you can incorporate these workouts at the end of any of your lifts to burn an extra few hundred calories. My other form of HIIT that I have recently been doing is Boxing. Trev got me back into boxing and yet again I feel like a badass. Plus, my apple watch calculates me burning about 350 calories in a 30 minute session! AMEN. 

THURSDAY-REST

FRIDAY-LEGS
Another leg day woot woot. So I went into depth about my leg day ordeal on Monday, so most likely I will try to isolate what I think I didn't work as hard on that Monday, So say I isolated my quads on Monday I will try to isolate my hamstrings and glutes a bit more today. For example, I try to incorporate two compound movements into my leg days so on my hamstring and glute day I will usually do deadlifts, and hip thrusts or squats. And then I will work out with a few more accessory movements like hamstring curls or lightweight goblet squats. I will be posting my everyday leg day soon so stay tuned.

SATURDAY- BACK AND BICEPS
Back and Bicep day or what is known as a pull day. This used to be my favorite day of the week, I loved working my back. I'm not the very biggest fan or biceps. My back grows like a weed, and so recently I have been trying to chill and not lift as heavy and just tone up so I have been trying to do more reps less weight, but man of man my back is killer. There are different exercises that hit different parts of your back but I enjoy working out my Lat's the most doing Lat pulldowns, and then rows. If I could preach one thing to grow and tone your back its rows baby. There are so many types of variations, so maybe I can film a back day routine on the gram and post in on there. Secondly, biceps. Biceps are a particularly easy muscle group to hit, because you basically just need to do bicep curls. There are also quite a few variations of those as well, like hammer curls, close grip curls, wide grip curls, spider curls, preacher bench curls. So girl whatever you do that you are curling your bicep towards you, those bad boys are gunna grow. 

SUNDAY- REST


There you go everyone that is my workout split. If you have any questions, feel free to dm me or leave a comment!

xoxo