Boots
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Bi's and tri's are a smaller muscle group that take about 2-3 days to recover with the proper nutrition, rest etc. I put arms two days away from bi's/back to allow for that recovery, usually I head into fridays with a better pump than the wednesdays and I never get the feeling of being overworked. I've noticed some pretty significant strength gains in the time being. The point is to maximize the recovery time of the arms rather than training arms once a week and miss out on those opportunities to train the arms when they are healed from the previous work out.
I agree with you, however, with putting back and tris on the same day. Some times (on the odd day every machine I need is being used) I'm stuck doing tri extensions before incline and it takes away from what ever weights i'd be stacking on the incline. That's pretty rare though and it only happens on the days I go to the gym before 10 pm when it's packed like sardines. I usually do all the heavy lifts (incline, bench, decline, dips) before the accessories and as a result the accessory lifts don't really suffer as much as doing an accessory lift before a heavy lift would suffer.
I see where you're coming from though.
edit : I edited the original post just to make it clear that wasn't the exact order I do everything in.
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