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pushups, pullups, and BW lunges..

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Posted by: higney85

I am reworking my workout to work towards a cutting program and eventually to a maintain workout (at least thats what I am telling myself). I am 6'2", 235 and from what I am seeing I am mid to high teen bf%. I am rather pleased with my size and am trying to go with a once a week attack of each muscle group. Two has worked for me for years but I have since upped the volume per workout and I think I am getting to the point of overtraining with too much crossover between days.

Here is what I am wanting to do..
Monday: chest and back - 4or5 exercises with 16-20 sets per bodypart
tues: abs, cardio
wed: legs, shoulders- 4or5 ex with 16-20 sets
thurs: abs, cardio
fri: biceps, triceps, forarm- 4or5 and 16-20
sat: abs, cardio
sun: sleep in!

My topic for the post is pushups, pullups, and bodyweight lunges:
What about incorporating a day (saturday most likely) where I do like 4or5 sets of 20 reps for each of these three excercises to kinda hit the entire body? Would this do more harm then good?


Posted by: Adamjs

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Originally Posted by higney85
My topic for the post is pushups, pullups, and bodyweight lunges:
What about incorporating a day (saturday most likely) where I do like 4or5 sets of 20 reps for each of these three excercises to kinda hit the entire body? Would this do more harm then good?
There's nothing wrong with doing BW exercises - but they won't build muscle beyond a certain point because you cannot increase the resistance beyond your body weight. They would serve as nothing more than a hinderance to recovery, if as you say you feel you actually are overtraining yourself, and as some extra cardio or endurance work depending on how you set up your sets/reps/rests etc, if you're not overtraining yourself they would be good for active recovery (refer to something by CP or Dale on this).

But the BW exercises are not really a fullbody workout like you're suggesting. If you want to design a proper full body workout try "CP's Guide to Designing a Routine" and follow the links at the bottom to full body routines.







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