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Training program

Five-Day Split

One muscle, fully dedicated, five days a week. Maximum focus for lifters with the recovery capacity for it.

Sessions a week
5
Length
4 weeks
Goal
Build muscle
Level
Advanced

The week

The same seven days repeat for 4 weeks — 3 of training and one lighter one at the end.

  1. 1
    Chest
    Chest
  2. 2
    Back
    Back
  3. 3
    Shoulders
    Shoulders · Traps
  4. 4
    Arms
    Biceps · Triceps
  5. 5
    Legs
    Quads · Hamstrings · Glutes · Calves
  6. 6
    Rest
    No session. Recovery is when the work you did lands.
  7. 7
    Rest
    No session. Recovery is when the work you did lands.

Every session

Built by MuscleMap itself, not typed out here: each day runs the single-muscle generator once per muscle it covers and merges the results, heaviest movements first.

Chest

6 exercises · 19 working sets · about 57 minutes

  1. 1
    Chest Dip
    Bodyweight · Lower chest
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  2. 2
    Dumbbell Bench Press
    Dumbbell · Mid chest
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  3. 3
    Incline Dumbbell Press
    Dumbbell · Upper chest
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  4. 4
    Cable Fly
    Cable · Mid chest
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  5. 5
    Low-to-High Cable Crossover
    Cable · Upper chest
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  6. 6
    Pec Deck
    Machine · Mid chest
    3 × 10-15rest 75s

Back

5 exercises · 16 working sets · about 51 minutes

  1. 1
    Lat Pulldown
    Machine · Lats
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  2. 2
    Seated Cable Row
    Cable · Rhomboids, Lats
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  3. 3
    Chest-Supported Row
    Machine · Rhomboids, Mid traps, Lats
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  4. 4
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  5. 5
    Machine Pullover
    Machine · Lats
    3 × 10-15rest 75s

Shoulders

6 exercises · 20 working sets · about 59 minutes

  1. 1
    Standing Overhead Press
    Barbell · Front delt, Side delt
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  2. 2
    Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press
    Dumbbell · Front delt, Side delt
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  3. 3
    Reverse Pec Deck
    Machine · Rear delt
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  4. 4
    Farmer's Carry
    Dumbbell · Upper traps
    4 × 30-45 secrest 150s
  5. 5
    Face Pull
    Cable · Mid traps, Lower traps
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  6. 6
    Chest-Supported Kelso Shrug
    Dumbbell · Mid traps, Rhomboids
    3 × 10-15rest 75s

Arms

6 exercises · 20 working sets · about 60 minutes

  1. 1
    Chin-Up
    Bodyweight · Short head, Long head
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  2. 2
    Hammer Curl
    Dumbbell · Brachialis, Long head
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  3. 3
    Cable Curl
    Cable · Short head, Long head
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  4. 4
    Close-Grip Bench Press
    Barbell · Lateral head, Medial head
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  5. 5
    Parallel Bar Triceps Dip
    Bodyweight · Lateral head, Medial head
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  6. 6
    Overhead Cable Extension
    Cable · Long head
    3 × 10-15rest 75s

Legs

8 exercises · 26 working sets · about 84 minutes

  1. 1
    Hack Squat
    Machine · Vastus lateralis, Vastus medialis
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  2. 2
    Barbell Back Squat
    Barbell · All four heads
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  3. 3
    Barbell Romanian Deadlift
    Barbell · All three heads
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  4. 4
    Lying Leg Curl
    Machine · Biceps femoris, Semitendinosus
    3 × 10-15rest 75s
  5. 5
    Barbell Hip Thrust
    Barbell · Gluteus maximus
    4 × 6-10rest 150s
  6. 6
    Sumo Deadlift
    Barbell · Gluteus maximus, Gluteus medius
    3 × 6-10rest 150s
  7. 7
    Jump Rope
    Other · Gastrocnemius, Soleus
    3 × 30-45 secrest 150s
  8. 8
    Tibialis Raise
    Bodyweight · Tibialis anterior
    2 × 10-15rest 75s

Why the last week is lighter

Week 4 is a deload: the same schedule at roughly 60% of the sets. Training hard for 3 weeks accumulates fatigue faster than it accumulates strength, and the adaptation you earned shows up while you are recovering from it rather than while you are grinding. A planned lighter week is how a run ends on purpose instead of ending because something hurts.

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