Please critique my 7-day routine

[madhops22]

Hey everyone...just started back into lifting about 3 weeks ago and have already noticed good strength gains in all exercises. However, I would like to be getting the best gains I possibly can, so I'm turning to the experts...you guys! Tell me how I can improve my weekly split and I'd appreciate a lot.

***I do 10-12 reps/6 sets of each exercise***
MONDAY: BACK (cable rows, lat pulldowns, one-armed dumbell rows)

TUESDAY: SHOULDERS (lateral raises, shrugs, dumbell press, upright rows)

WEDNESDAY: LEGS (squats, legs curls, leg extensions, calf raises)

THURSDAY: CHEST (Incline, flat bench, flys)

FRIDAY: ARMS (dumbell curls, reverse curls, tricep pushdowns)

SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Days off

I started taking creatine 2 weeks ago and have noticed good gains on my bench and shoulder exercises...still pretty pathetic though (Incline bench I do sets with 105lbs total, I use 45 pound dumbells for shoulder press).

Any tips for me to maximize strength gains?

thanks in advance for your help...

Madhops22

 

[Lord_Suston]

the only thing I can find not up to par is resting two days on the weekend and having five day straight working out. I recomend maybe sat and wens as rest days this will aid in recovery.

 

[Lastcall]

You have no mass building Tricep exercises. Tri's make up 2/3 of you upper arms. If you want big arms you need big tris. Do some skull crushers and close grip benches. For back, alternate chins for lat pulls every other week. You might want to do dead lifts for back also, it's a great mass builder.

 

[Cap'n Cooke]

holy smokes, 12 reps at 6 sets of EACH exercise?

 

[madhops22]

yup

10-12 reps each...6 sets
Today I squatted 250lbs! That may be peanuts for most of you guys, but I just started a month ago so I'm pretty happy with my gains!

Madhops22

 

[Greek Freak]

shoulders after back is no good. arms after chest is no good either(your tri's get fatigued from the chest workout). What I would do is monday-back and bi's, tuesday-off, wed-shoulders and tri's, thursday-legs, friday-off, saturday-chest, sunday-off. Your also overtraining...3-4 sets for big compound movements and 2-3 for isolation movements is all you need. You wanna stay between 10-15 sets per workout and time between 45 mins-1 hour.

 

[madhops22]

just want to bump this up for more opinions

BUMP!