Why is Monday, the universal chest day?

18 comments

1. A clever ploy to leave the squat racks free for me

2. I like to start with legs personally.

   The Monday crowd has a lot more of the “I only do chest and biceps” bros that *only* hit the bench and the curls.

3. It’s not. Monday is power leg day. Front squats, single leg squats, extensions, curls and calves.

4. I have yet to figure it out. I usually do legs on Monday since all the squat racks are open because everyone wants to bench.

5. Because alot of men place high value on having a defined chest., I usually start most Mondays with legs so that I can hit them again on Friday.

6. What’s with, the unnecessary comma?

7. It’s not and it’s dumb. Monday is pull day because then I have a push day before my legs day where I deadlift. Having pull and legs back to back is not good programming in my opinion when you can just as easily sandwich a push day in between them (and then also have a rest day between your first legs day and second pull day)

8. When I did a three day rotation it was because Monday’s sucked ass and having chest and arms were the most fun to actually do exercises for. So it was a way to make a sucky day less sucky, legs left me shot and so I picked Friday for those so I wouldn’t have to walk on them as much on the weekend. Course this was years ago since I’ve been a regular.

9. I exercise as the algorithm commands. Weekdays have no play in it.

10. I do chest on Monday because Sunday I’m outside hiking or biking or skiing all day.

    My chest is the only thing on Monday that doesn’t need a break. I could do a rest day Monday, or I can do chest Monday.

    I get that it’s popular among other guys for no reason, but I actually have a good reason.

    TLDR: because my legs and back are tired and sore from Sunday and chest is all I can do

11. My program says so.

12. Because everyone loves boobs.

13. My schedule isn’t based on weekday. Today is rest day for me

14. Push pull legs, and a lot of bro splits have chest at the beginning of the week. If you start on a Monday (like a lot of people) you get a lot of guys doing chest. I personally do pull push legs, so I run into a ton of other people doing legs on Wednesday.

15. I actually prefer leg days on Mondays, might as well get it out the way and by the time the weekend hits I’m not sore anymore.

16. Back and bis for me today

17. Every day is leg day.

18. I didn’t know that was a thing. I just do full-body workouts every day.