I'm changing my routine. Critique my new one, please and thank you.

[skyflyer231]

I'm curious about the Power Cleans, that's a lot of volume...any particular reason?

Hmmmm. I can only say I picked doing them like that because i tried combining the routines I've done in the last months I've been back to working out. Which is Matt Reynolds Dual Factor, and 5x5.

 

[bba2]

Hate to break the bad news to you, but you are not going anywere with that routine. your doing 25 sets on mon, 28 sets on sat. never going to happen.

you have to many exercises and no direction with them. it seems you just put in exercises you like. i see no reason for some of the combos.

determine what you want out of these workouts.
if its mainly to gain muscle and lose fat, you might want to do supersets or push/pull sets. or even better focus on hpertrophy and adjust your diet to lose weight, add in some cardio and interval training on non lift days. right now your heading in the wrong direction.

 

[lanny]

explain please.. i dont understand.

 

[skyflyer231]

Hate to break the bad news to you, but you are not going anywere with that routine. your doing 25 sets on mon, 28 sets on sat. never going to happen.

you have to many exercises and no direction with them. it seems you just put in exercises you like. i see no reason for some of the combos.

determine what you want out of these workouts.
if its mainly to gain muscle and lose fat, you might want to do supersets or push/pull sets. or even better focus on hpertrophy and adjust your diet to lose weight, add in some cardio and interval training on non lift days. right now your heading in the wrong direction.

Actually, like I said in the very first post. It's 28 sets on Tuesday and Saturday, and 21 sets on Wednesday.

I just put in exercises that I wanted to get better at and tried to get a full body workout for each day. If I already have too many sets I don't see how putting in supersets are going to help. And how do you recommend that I even better focus on hypertophy?

I am giong to change my diet, and I'm already doing cardio on non-lift days.

I appreciate your response. But I feel like you need to be more specific to be of any help to me. Your comments are vague and unclear.

 

[skyflyer231]

BTW just so everyone knows I'll probably cut out some sets. I'm just trying to figure out what I should cut.

Anyways I need to finalize my routine by Tuesday which is when I'm going to start this routine so keep the comments comin.

 

[skyflyer231]

cmon guys.

 

[lanny]

i would love to comment, but i'm inexperienved. sorry.

 

[skyflyer231]

Ok so here is what I've come up with. I used the little responses I recieved and made a few changes.

Tuesday:

1) Back Squat (5x5)
2) SLIGHTLY CLOSER Grip Bench (4x10)
3) Power Cleans (5x10-12)
4) Bent Over Row (3x8-12)
5) Chins (3xfailure)
6) Dragon Flys (3xfailure)

Thursday:

1) Light Overhead Squat (4x10)
2) Deadlift (5x5)
3) Standing Military (5x8-12)
4) Lateral Raise (3x8-12)
5) DB Standup (3xfailure)

Saturday:

1) Front Squat (4x10)
2) Bench (5x5)
3) Bent Over Row (3x8-12)
4) DB swings/ pullthroughs (5x10-12)
5) Dips (3xfailure)
6) Preacher Curls (3x10-12)
7) Rope Pulldowns (3x10-12)

This makes 23 sets for Tuesday, 20 sets for Thursday, and 26 sets for Saturday.

Tell me what you guys think of this. I'm going to go ahead and start this routine tomorrow. And it wouldn't be very cool if you let me continue to use it if you think I should change or add anything. Or you think its wrong in some way. Thanks.