Thread: Designing a Full Body Routine

I am new to this forum and I am glad I read this thread. I thought a full body workout had vertical push/pull and horizontal push/pull all in the same day working out 3 days a week? The only thing I thought that would alternate was deadlifting and squatting each session. Does this work better than doing all the horizontal and vertical push/pulls in one session and get faster gains? I have tried doing everything in one session before and it goes over an hour.

What I am thinking of doing is following this fullbody templete you wrote and it sounds like it won't go over an hour. This also makes more sense rather than doing all the upper body vertical/horizontal pulls & pushes in 1 session.

example would be..workout A: lower push, horizontal push, lower pull, horizontal pull, accessory work (I can include pull ups & chin ups for accessory work along with core work & such.) for workout B, it would be opposite like you wrote in your templete..for accessory work I could do push ups & inverted rows along with core work & such)

The question I struggle with is..how many reps & rest for each exercise to keep it under an hour? I know 3 sets most likely for all the exercises. Maybe lower body up to 6-8 reps maybe? or do you recommend everything 10-15 reps with a rest time of 1-2 minutes? Also, the way you have the templete set up, I could maybe do a lower push with horizontal push together without resting? or is that not a good idea?

[QUOTE=CowPimp;1121858]Let me post a sample routine for you assuming a moderate volume routine where failure is not reached or only reached on the final set of a series for an exercise:

Workout A:
Squats x 3
Military Press x 3
Bent Rows x 3
Situps x 3
Hyperextensions x 3

Workout B:
Deadlifts x 3
Bench Press x 3
Chinups x 3
Leg Raises x 3
Reverse Hyperextensions x 3

Dude I like this sample. Have been doing a Upper Pull/Lower Push & Upper Push/Lower Pull split for 2 months now and have made gains on all my lifts but am getting slightly bored, so ill give this a try. How many reps per set do you reckon? Or is it my choice? I generally like to stick around the 5 rep mark.

Cheers

Wow, you actually found the old Cowpimp thread. I mean far be it that people actually read the STICKIES!


Designing training routines by Cowpimp

Whats a Stickie? The only stickie in know is if I real hard!!!!

Originally Posted by yeksetm

Whats a Stickie? The only stickie in know is if I real hard!!!!

Make sure you wipe off your face after you blow on it.

I think I was

Well if nothing else maybe some of the newbies will look at it here. No doubt, it's worth reading, and would make giving out advise on routines easier for everyone.

I read it last week, about a week after I came back. Obviously found it through the stickies, but I am curious why this one isn't stickied :P

Originally Posted by Muscle_Girl

I read it last week, about a week after I came back. Obviously found it through the stickies, but I am curious why this one isn't stickied :P

It is?
Designing training routines by Cowpimp
Or did you mean to have it's own sticky?

Yea, I followed the links through that post. I did mean this specific thread. Not a huge deal, I still found it

Originally Posted by Muscle_Girl

Yea, I followed the links through that post. I did mean this specific thread. Not a huge deal, I still found it

It's really cool that you looked through the stickies. The way I figure, if a person won't take a few minutes to browse through the stickies to see if there's anything interesting in there, then they can't be very serious about their training.