new routine

[gimp]

what u guys think of this new full body routine? i'm planning on taking 2 days off inbetween each session, alternating between two different full body workouts.

First routine
Squat 3x10-15
Incline Bench 3x6-8
Deadlift 3x6-8
Curls 3x4-6
Pressdowns x4-6
Abs

Second
Squat 3x10-15
Incline Bench 3x6-8
Deadlift 3x6-8
Pulldowns 3x6-8
Mil Press 3x6-8
Hyperextension 3x15

Any input is appreciated.
Thanks

[a-bomb83]

Re: new routine

with ample warm ups for each bodypart, i think it looks pretty good. you may have to kinda mess around with it to see how good your recovery time will be to see how often you can work that bodypart out, kinda has a DC feel to it.

[NATE]

Re: new routine

How long are you planning to do this?

Like a-bomb said you should do a warm up set of each exercise.

[gimp]

Re: new routine

yeah, i always do 1 or 2 warm up sets before getting into the working sets on each lift. i'm probably going to do this for about 8 weeks and then change it up again.

[NATE]

Re: new routine

sounds good! only thing i see is maybe swapping pressdowns with close grip presses and maybe adding a second leg exercise bc you have an additional day of rest.

Or will it be every third day that you lift? bc that spells disaster imo. It will eventually bite you in the ass and screw up your lifting days.

[T-Man007]

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Ummm, where's your flat bench at? And, I would add some kind of row like a bent over row or seated row. Deads are good but no one ever built a good balanced back without some kind of row movement.

[T-Man007]

Re: new routine

sounds good! only thing i see is maybe swapping pressdowns with close grip presses and maybe adding a second leg exercise bc you have an additional day of rest.

Or will it be every third day that you lift? bc that spells disaster imo. It will eventually bite you in the ass and screw up your lifting days.

Yeah, good point. You have 6 sets for pecs, a small muscle and 6 sets for quads which is a much larger muscle. Well, deads will hit the legs too so maybe just add leg extension or leg curl to make sure you cover the thighs. Also, what are doing for calves?

[T-Man007]

Re: new routine

PS - I would drop the hypers if you are doing deads both days. Either drop the deads on day 2, keep the hypers and add a row exercise or drop the hypers and add a row exercise. IMO

And, you may want to switch to leg press on day 2 just to change the angle a little. However, you could do squats on both days and after about 8 weeks switch to leg press on both days. Just plan on some kind of change to keep the muscle guessing.

[NATE]

Re: new routine

PS - I would drop the hypers if you are doing deads both days. Either drop the deads on day 2, keep the hypers and add a row exercise or drop the hypers and add a row exercise. IMO

good call

[a-bomb83]

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8 weeks on this? i'd think about switching up exercises each time, try to get stronger on each exercise. for 8 weeks, the same exercise? you'll get burned out quickly. pick 2 or 3 of your favorite exerices (make the majority of them compound movements) and go from there.

[crombie09]

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This is what Im doing now, simular to yours.

Basically it would go something like this:

Upper-body workout "A"
-Rows
-Bench
-Decline skull-crushers
-Hammer curls
-One-arm lateral raise

Lower-body workout "A"
-Squats
-Leg curls
-calves

Upper-body workout "B"
-Pull-ups/pull-downs
-Weighted dips
-Tricep pressdowns
-Preacher curls
-one-arm raise to the front
-rear delt raise/reverse pec-deck

Lower-body workout "B"
-Leg-Press
-Romanian Deadlift
-calves

I do 1 on 1 off. So:

Upper "A"
cardio
Lower "A"
cardio
Upper "B"
cardio
Lower "B"
cardio
off completely -I also take additional days off here and there.
repeat

Seems to be working well for me.

[gimp]

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Thanks for the advice, makes sense.

How about this then?

Day 1 - Same as above.

Day 2:

Leg Press
Flat Bench
Hypers
Pulldowns
Military Press
Seated Rows

then maybe adding seated calf raises to both days, my calves suck because i don't give them much attention usually, that might give them a chance to catch up.

whatcha think?

[gimp]

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crombie -

your split looks good, but the reason for lifting every 3rd day is to try and cut back on the number of days/wk i lift for the rest of the summer - just too many things going on.

[crombie09]

Re: new routine

crombie -

your split looks good, but the reason for lifting every 3rd day is to try and cut back on the number of days/wk i lift for the rest of the summer - just too many things going on.

Gotcha.