Mondays at the gym

Is that why I'm not fighting for the rack? I'll have to notice next time. Got 1 or 2 doing 5 x 5's as I come in, so they got some legs.

Shoot, and there I was thinking I'll be changing the schedule around since Monday will follow a long run day.

I thought it was pretty common for people for mondays to be "chest day". It's something I've been reading on and off through the internet and magazines since the mid 90s. I thought it was something that popped out of the roid-fueled 70s

Agreed! Everyone (both male and female) has MONDAY as CHEST day at my gym!!

Probably because most people hate working their legs and place it at the end of the week.

I always do legs on sunday.

I do chest on mondays, but at my gym its pretty varied, which is good as its not a massive gym.

I do
Monday Chest / Abs
Tuesday Back / Abs
Wednesday Shoulders / Abs
Thursday Biceps / Legs
Friday Triceps / Legs

Sat - Sun Cardio

It's international chest day on Monday.

Koing

Agreed! Peak time on a Monday is a nightmare, it's always "chest Mondays" as I hear a lot.

To be fair, quite often on a Monday I am benching. Either that or it's a rest day. Not because that's when "chest day" has to be, and it's nothing to do with it being the start of the week (shift work can mean any day is the start of the week for me) More so because I have lower body days Tues/Thurs/Sat. I take at least one day off a week (always Sundays because the bf can't train with me then, and opening times aren't good) So upper body is left for the other 2 or 3 days. Sometimes I combine upper with lower, like today I did squats with OHP, but I prefer not to.

Good thing I'm rarely there in peak time. We only have one bench at our gym.

Is it me or is it EVERY Monday that just about every guy is in there doing chest/back? Rarely do I ever see dudes doing legs on Monday (which is why I train legs so I can have the rack to myself).

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Haha to funny I just switch my routine a couple weeks ago and started doing Legs on Monday mornings (mainly because I am getting my knee's drained and getting my 3 rounds of Euflexxa in the afternoon) but I found that No one in my gym is doing Legs on Monday's...... although I still have to wait on the power racks to do squats cause there always seems to be that guy doing barbell curls.... Derp...

Those guys are actually doing Chest and Back every day. Chicken legs ftw!

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I don't go to the gym anymore on Mondays if I can help it. The peak hour of 4:30pm is sick, so I try and make Monday an off or cardio day.

Sundays my Leg Day, because I never work Sundays so I have a week to prep for it, foam roll, stretch, and sleep in the day of, lol. But I actually found a fair bit of people also do Leg Day on Sunday as well, so I have to compete for the leg press or rack.

I too hate doing chest, lol, I don't know why, two years back I loved it, but then injured my shoulder and maybe it's simply a psychosematic thing, the past pain and frustration still embroidered in my mind. My shoulders grow too damn quickly too, so it's hard to keep them balanced.

I have, like most I am sure, a love/hate relationship with Legs. I hate it, but love pushing myself.

If I had a day I guess Back/bis don't bother me, though I had doing biceps in general.

When winter hits ill probably have to do cardio there, as running in -30/-40c blows chunks and I can't even,.. Just no.

So hashtag,.. #NoMondaysForMe and #FUWinter. LOL