Preferable Routine Split

[TheDevilAside]

It's been almost a year since I've trained regularly or went to the gym, so now I'm going to get back into it. When I used to liftweights, it was quite unstructured, athough I did make considerable gains, this time around I'm going to spend my time a bit more efficiently, which brings me to the reason for this post...

The original routine I had planned out was to work out two muscles groups 3 times a week, and off days do calisthenics/cardiovascular work. An example would be:

Monday - Shoulders/Back

Tuesday - Off

Wednesday - Biceps/Tricaps

Thursday - Off

Friday - Legs/Abs

However, I started to think that if I divide it up that way, I am essentially only training one muscle group once a week. Which worked well for me for a few weeks in the beginning because I was a bit out of shape and my body couldn't take the punishment it used to, however, now it's a little too easy

Then a friend pointed me to this website that suggested an alternative routine split, which can be found at http://www.bodyforlife.com/exercise/weighttraining.asp

Basically, it suggests you do upper body twice a week, and in between do lower body, then alternate by doing lower body twice and upper body once. I tried this, worked out great for the lower body, however the upper body was just taking up too much time (2 hours at least) and, I was getting too exhausted to give it my most towards the end (which might be because they want you to buy their supplements to go along with it, but I simply can't afford them).

Currently, I've been going 6 times a week, training one muscle group twice a week. However, once school starts I doubt I'll be able to keep that up.

So, what I'm looking for is for your opinion on the ones I mentioned above or different routines that have worked for you. Much appreciated.

[TheDevilAside]

come on! >:/

[Enviroman]

It looks decent. I do upper body twice a week, lower once a week (supplemented with daily stationary bike riding with decent resistence), plyometrics twice a week, "chinese" forearm strengthening daily (probably too much, actually) while in low horse stance...that's about it. Your program looks decent.