Thread: Please critique my routine.

Too many exercises

Originally Posted by bigsahm21

Pull Day:

Pullups 4x6-8
Chinups 4x6-8
Lat Pulldowns-drop this
DB lat rows 4x6-8
Shrugs-drop this
BB curls-drop this
DB hammer curls 3x10-12
BB preacher curls-drop this
Rear Delt-drop this

Legs Day:

Squats
Deadlift-drop this and do SLD's
One leg leg presses-drop this
Lower back extensions-drop this
Oblique crunces-drop this
Seated calf raises
Standing one-leg calf raises-drop this

Push Day:
Bench Press- this or decline pick one not both
Decline BB press- drop this, do incline
Incline press-drop this
Military press
Side/Front raises -drop this
Skull-crushers
Weighted dips
One-arm reverse pulldowns-drop this

I am on a MWF routine...I go Pull/cardio/Legs/cardio/Push/cardio/off.

On every cardio day, I do abs as well...so I do abs 3 days a week, and for abs I do weighted decline crunces (4 sets) and weighted reverse crunches (the one where you stick your legs out and then bring them back to your chest.) However, I've been doing these forever, and I've lost my rate of progress in ab strength gained. What new ab exercises could I do that would stimulate them for muscel growth differently than what I'm doing now?

I know that my workouts are pretty extensive, and it might look like I'm overdoing it with certain muscle groups...but I'm always done in an hour and 15 minutes, and since i'm only hitting each movement group once a week I figure I can hit it really really hard and give it plenty of time to recover. Am I right in this thinking?

changes in bold

a wise man once said...."It is not the routine that matters, but how thou uses it"

can somebody explain to me how you can have "too many exercises?" i mean to me it just seems like you're hitting the muscle group more thoroughly by doing a wider variety of exercises....not saying you're wrong or I am right, i just want to understand the physiological reasoning behind it.q

because their is a thing called "overtraining". stick to compound movements .

Originally Posted by kenwood

because their is a thing called "overtraining". stick to compound movements .

stay in school

Originally Posted by bigsahm21

can somebody explain to me how you can have "too many exercises?" i mean to me it just seems like you're hitting the muscle group more thoroughly by doing a wider variety of exercises....not saying you're wrong or I am right, i just want to understand the physiological reasoning behind it.q

Physiologically, your body can't take that much work.

I wouldn't be surprised if the front of both of your shoulders touched each other with all of that pressing and vertical pulling, your thumbs might even point directly backwards.

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Physiologically, your body can't take that much work.

I wouldn't be surprised if the front of both of your shoulders touched each other with all of that pressing and vertical pulling, your thumbs might even point directly backwards.

I disagree 100%. The bottom line is why use six exercises ( three that are BS) to get the job done of three???? Waste not want not son.

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Physiologically, your body can't take that much work.

I wouldn't be surprised if the front of both of your shoulders touched each other with all of that pressing and vertical pulling, your thumbs might even point directly backwards.

We have a lot of those guys at my gym. Haha!