Okay, I am more or less curious as to you’s opinions on the completeness of my program .
My goals are to build a solid foundation, then move on to more ‘eye candy’ type training once this foundation is as solid as it can be. I have trained haphazardly for years, but never really logged any of it or stuck to a concrete plan with goals until about 9 weeks ago, when I started this. My diet is good, I basically stick to the P/C AM, P/F PM, with 1.5g/lb. protein intake, and no ‘boxed’ foods. Supplements are: vitamin, fish oil, HOT-ROX (mostly for the mental boost I feel), and protein (casein and whey).
All critiques and ideas are welcome, and needed.
All exercises done with 3 sets, 1 warm-up, except ones done to failure.
Day one/four:
Bench Press
Incline Press
Pullovers
Chin-ups (to failure)
Bent-over rows
Deadlifts (powertraining)
And on corresponding days…
Flys (day one)
Incline Dbell Press (day one)
Dips (to failure) (day one)
Push-ups (to failure) (day one)
T-bar rows (day four)
One-arm Dbell rows (day four)
Lat Pullovers (day four)
Abdominals (various)
3 X 3 minutes jump rope or…
10-15 minutes on heavy bag
Day two/five:
BBell Clean & press
Dbell lateral raises
Standing BBell curls
Seated Dbell curls
Close-grip Presses
Skull crushers
Wrist curls
Reverse wrist curls
Heavy Upright Rows (powertraining)
Push presses (powertraining)
And on corresponding days…
Concentration curls (day two)
Kickbacks (day two)
Hammer curls (day two)
Shrugs (day five)
Military press (day five)
Arnold press (day five)
Abdominals (various)
3 X 3 minutes jump rope or…
10-15 minutes on heavy bag
and finally…
Day three/six (which are the same):
Squats
Lunges
Leg Curls
Standing Calf raises
Staight-leg deadlifts (powertraining)
Good-mornings (powertraining)
Obliques (various)
No cardio on these days.
As soon as spring hits I will probably change cardio to running steps in the local park, along with jump rope and the heavy bag.
I feel good, have managed to concentrate mostly on form instead of how I look in the mirror, and this seems to make a huge difference in the value of my workouts.
As much as I try to plug 6 workouts per week in, I usually end up taking one weekday and one weekend day off, when my body tells me to, which rounds out to and average of 5 days/weeks, which seems satisfactory.
Also, I am sure some of you recognize the source of my training template, but please let me know if there are better execises suited for my goals, or if switching some templates around would allow for better synergism and recovery.