Training Split Question

[dancinfool]

Hey everyone, I have a question which is of the newbie nature. I have been training for quite awhile now (ten years, not as long as some, but nothing shabby either) but I have never gotten into the mental half of training the way I have begun to since I began lurking on this forum. I have always trained one body part per day 2 on 1 off. I have recently begun trying to vary the way I workout by grouping body parts such as chest and triceps in order to hit each area more frequently but still get adequate rest. When I would train one body part per day, I would tear it up and always get a good pump in the area trained. However, now, it seems like the pump is most prevalent in whatever I happened to train last on any given day (if I trained chest and tris, I get a great feeling in my chest prior to starting tris but after all is said and done my tris feel like they are going to pop and my chest feels completely deflated). My question is, is this a natural physiological occurrence, or am I not doing enough for my chest? I assume that the blood that engorges my pecs during training rushes to my tris when I train them, but I am not sure. I have had my share of problems with over training and in my caution to not over train, I feel like I may do too little. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Quad-smack]

Huh?

Could you rephrase that question, please?

 

[dancinfool]

Sorry, it was confusing. I am worried about over training or under training I guess. If for example, I train Chest and Triceps, the "pump" I have when chest is done feels like it goes away when I start triceps. This makes me feel like I haven't hit my chest hard enough. Is it normal for the "pump" to go away when you have switched body parts? I feel like I need to go back and do more chest work when this happens, but I am wondering if it is just a natural thing where the blood that filled the pecs has moved on to fill the triceps?

 

[Quad-smack]

The "pump" you get from a workout is transient. When you start to train another bodypart your focus should change. Work it, move on and start the recuperation process. Just because your "pump" diminishes does not mean you have not had an adequate workout.
Remember - less is more. I would venture to say that 90 - 95% of guys overtrain & under-recuperate.

 

[dancinfool]

Thanks bro, that's what I thought. I have always had the more is more mindset and I have had trouble adapting to the less is more, so I just needed the reassurance.