Training Splits

[nitrotank]

I've found that when I'm trying to lose weight (right now I'm pre-contest, so this applies), I fare better with a five day / week training split. I don't know if it's a mental thing, or what. I lose weight more steadily, but don't know if I may be overtraining.

During the off-season, I do a four-day split, and seemed to fare okay with that with weight gain and strength gains.

Right now, I'm training Monday-Friday:
Monday- Chest / Abs
Tuesday- Back
Wednesday- Shoulders
Thursday- Arms / Abs
Friday- Legs (No cardio)
Saturday- Cardio only
Sunday- Cardio only

Cardio 6 days per week for 25-30 min.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[hossjob]

Tank, I do basically the same bro. Off season I stick to 4 days per week and this past year I did barely any cardio. It looked like this:
Day 1 - Back/Calves
Day 2 - Shoulders/Traps/Triceps
Day 3 - Off
Day 4 - Legs
Day 5 - Chest/Biceps
Days 6/7 - Off

Now that I'm dieting, I switched to my contest mode of:
Day 1 - Back/Calves
Day 2 - Chest/Abs
Day 3 - Off
Day 4 - Legs/Calvs
Day 5 - Shoulders/Traps/Abs
Day 6 - Arms (every other week I'll hit calves)
Day 7 - Off
Cardio - 5-6 days/week @ 30-40 minutes (this will increase to 6-7 days @ 45-60 min depending)

In the past I've done AM cardio. This just didn't sit right with me last year. I was always running like I had low blood sugar and constantly hungry. This year I'm trying it out doing cardio post workout while sipping 7 grams of Glut & 7-10 grams of BCAA.

[mrky03]

I just changed to 5 days a week myself. My workouts were just getting too long with the extra cardio sessions plus the reduced energy level from low carbs.

[Blade]

Here's my schedule

Day 1 Chest/ Calves / Lower abs

Day 2 Hams/ Bi's / Upper-mid abs

Day 3 Shoulders / Tri / Obliques

Day 4 Quads

Day 5 Back/ Traps

Am and PM cardio on every day except Day 4 (only PM) Off days I have 1 hour of cardio. All workouts performed in the AM