Thread: Critique my routine

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anyone?

Originally Posted by SheLifts

Be kind, be harsh, be honest.
Tell me what I'm doing wrong, tell me what I'm doing right.

Goals: Go hard or go home.. I'm cutting right now, but don't want to
sacrifice muscle.
Stats: 5'3" female, 149 lbs, approx 18% body fat

I've never really gotten a lot of benefit from crunches, abs seem
to be strong and grow better with heavy weight lifting.

All exercises are 2 sets of 6-8 reps.

Saturday: Back/Bi/Trap
Lat Pull dn on cable with Wide grip
One Arm Row
Cable Row
Back Extensions
Bicep curl with EZ bar
Preacher curl
Standing shrug w/ Smith machine Suggest Rack pulls instead of shrugs

Monday- Leg day
Warm up: Treadmill + squat on smith machine 12 reps
Squat (smith machine)
Leg PRess
Calf raise on leg press between sets (12 reps each set)
Straight Leg deadlift I think you mean "stiff" leg. Straight legs possibly will hyper extend the knee.

Thursday: Chest/Tri/Shoulder
Bench Press: (warm up - 45x12)
Bench press for sets
Chest Press machine
Overhead Press
Lying Cable Tri Ext
Standing Tri Ext

cardio ranges from circuits on all the cardio equipment (i get bored easily)
to boxing with the punching bag.

I'll have this routine for like 3 more weeks before going to a new, more intense one.

My comments inserted above. I presuem this is more of a ramp up program. Your mix of exercises is good. When you move on to the "more intense one" I suggest moving away from smith machine to free wts. Same with cable exercises. What is your idea of more intense?