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Designing a Full Body Routine

You going for a workout 3x a week,? im trying to develop a workout routine along those same guidelines.. i thnk it looks prtty good but better wait for someone who knows what they're talkin bout to chime in :P

Yeah, 3x a week rotating between workouts AXBXAXX,BXAXBXX.

haha will do, thanks for the reply.
 
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?
 
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
 
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Whats a Stickie? The only stickie in know is if I :jerkit::jerkit::jerkit::jerkit::jerkit::jerkit: real hard!!!!
 
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
 
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Yea, I followed the links through that post. I did mean this specific thread. Not a huge deal, I still found it :)
 
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. :thumb: 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.
 
A full body routine doesn't have to be complicated.
You can keep it simple and viciously effective by only doing a few basic exercises.
Check this article for some good info: 7 Lifts For a Complete Workout
Hope this helps.
 
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