23 April 2012

Workout Routine Update

After two weeks of this program, I am becoming a lot more aware of what is working, and more importantly, what is not.  Between the comments posted on this blog, and the comments I receive from other forums, there is a definite opinion across the board: I am not training my legs hard enough, and am wasting my time with some superfluous lifting days (most notably, arms).  I have taken as much feedback into account as I can, and am going to make the following changes to my weekly routine:

  1. Monday: Chest, 5x4 incline, 3x10 flat, 2x15 flat, pec dec
  2. Tuesday: Legs, 5x4 squats, 3x10 leg press, 2x15 leg press, 3x10 leg curl
  3. Wednesday: Shoulder and Arms, some combination of these exercises
  4. Thursday: Chest, 5x4 flat, 3x10 incline, 2 x 15 incline, pec dec
  5. Friday: Back, follow the coan/phillipi deadlift routine to achieve the 5 plate lift by the 12th week
I am still not 100% committed to this regiment, so if this doesn't look sound, I'm open to suggestions.

1 comment:

  1. Like the new workout a lot better. I just have two questions. Any reason you do incline bench first? I would say by far the most important lift of the day on chest days is your flat bench so why not start with that and use the incline more as a supplement to the flat and not the other way around?

    Secondly, do you think your 2nd chest day will suffer because of the arm/shoulder day the day before? This is less concern because you start off the week after 2 days of rest on chest so it shouldn't be a big deal, so thinking about it that sounds pretty good. The rest of the workout looks great.

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