what's up with my chest workout?

[GeorgeG.]

Depending on your split, it's usually recomended to work "push" (Chest, Tris, Shoulders) and "pull" (Back, Bis, Lats) together so you don't burn a secondary muscle the day before you need it for the primary muscle group heavier lifts. Ideally you want 48hrs min between lifts for a specific muscle group to give it time to hearl. (Also why sleep is super important! Build that torn down muscle back up again.)

For example, let's say you do chest, bis and shoulders Monday and you go to do Back, Tris and Lats on Tuesday. You use a lot of bicep to work back and lats, but you already burned them the day before, they are tired and sore already, so you may feel it there before you get to feeling it where you're intending to or it may kill how heavy you can go. You also used a lot of Tris to do your chest work out and they may not be up to full potential the day after resulting in a weak tricep lift or already sore muscle, especially if you chest form is still resulting in tricep fatigue like you noted before.

This might be what's going on...even though I keep the two workouts 2 days apart, I still feel a little soreness when working on chest or tri's but I usually just keep going. I'm going to switch my bi's and tri's and see what happens.

I wouldn't call this a rule, but it's something to watch for. If you find you're weaker on those groups, you'll know why.

If you're waiting 48hrs between lift days, I think you're fine doing it your way.

-Jonny

The push/pull is what I was going for. I was introduced to that about a year ago and liked it better than the upper body/lower body routine. How or when I got these switched up is beyond me.

[sdun]

Couldn't it be that his tri's are not as strong as his chest? I find that when I havn't worked out in a while (like years) it takes a while for my forearms to catch my bi's and tri's and a little longer for b&t to get strong enough to make my chest work hard on bench. I will notice that my tri's are less sore and my chest is more sore after about a month or so.

[Jonny00GT]

Tris are a secondary muscle in bench press. If the form is bad and the mind to muscle connection is not there so you're not feeling it or concentraiting on the muscle you're trying to work, then I can see wearing out the non-target muscle first.

-Jonny