my routine

After about 3 months, this seems to be the routine where I’ve settled in for a week or two now:
 
All dumbbells, that’s all I have room for in my house, and gym membership isn’t an option.
 
Each exercise is made up of 3 sets, to failure, targeting 8 – 12 reps per set.  If I exceed 12 reps, I try the next weight up.  If I can’t quite hit the 8 reps, I add another set.
 
Day 1 - Legs, lower back
Squats
Calf Raises
Straight leg deadlift
Lunges (if I haven’t fallen over)
 
Day 2 - off
 
Day 3 – shoulders, mid-back
Lying rear lateral raise
Lateral Raise
Upright Row
Front raise
Shrug
One-arm dumbbell row
 
Day 4 - off
 
Day 5 – chest & arms
Flyes
Bench press
Incline flyes
Incline bench
Some sort of tricep – kickbacks or skull crushers
Hammer curls
Concentration curls
forearm curls
 
Days 6 & 7 off.
 
Some cardio tossed in there once or twice on the off days.  Bicycle crunches & decline crunches interspersed.
 
I feel like the biggest things I’m missing is “real” squats and deadlifts with a barbell.  Wish I could do a few cable excercises - flyes for example.
 
At age 33, 5'11", I've gone from about 132 lbs to 144 across 2 months - picked up a couple lbs of body fat in that, but not too bad.  Estimate the body fat at 12 - 15%.  Progress is definitely going well, imho. 

For a frame of reference, when I started, I was barely doing my sets with a total of a 30 lb bench press (2x 15lb wts).  A couple of months later I'm up to 60 lb (2x 30lb).  On flyes I was only doing 10 lb dumbell sets, now I'm at 25.  Sets of curls were at 10 lb dumbells, now up to 30.  etc.  So, clearly those are rather weak numbers, but its solid progress and I feel good about it.  Don't know what my maxes are, those weights are what I'm hitting at the sets.  
 
Any feedback?

good work on the progress.  I sort of remember your first post about you not being able to gain weight, so 12 pounds in a few months is a real nice job.
 
i would do either standing OH press, sitting OH press or arnold presses on your shoulder/back day.  maybe do one of those first or do your row first so that you can use max weight.
 
you may also alternate regular deadlifts with your sl deadlifts.
 
eventhough you may not have barbells, at least you are attempting to do the major compounds with what you got.  keep up the good work!  lay off the soda (i think that was you)!

No the leg press is not the same as doing squats.

don't worry about the numbers and what other people think.   the main point is that you've made progress.  solid progresslike you said.   that's great!   stay with it, and stay dedicated.. not ONLY to your training habits, but also to your diet.

Diet plays a HUGE role in making gains.  75% or more is my opinion on how much diet affects your goals/progress.. but that's just me. 

nice job. keep it up

*just looked at your routine, and i fully agree with mobley on his advice for shoulders.  It would be in your best interest to add OH press with DB's.. and/OR also ARNOLD PRESS.   the arnold press works both the anterior and the posterior portion of the deltoids, so i'm basically saying that you wouldn't have to do all those different kinds of raises on shoulder day if you incoorporated arnold press's into your routine.  you could still keep a few of the raises, but if you get a good OH press into your routine, this should allow you to do away with the overkill on the front/lat/side raises.

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Diet is your main goal to get bigger
#2 make sure you are using good movements to optimize results
IMO you dont need all those curls. just barbell curls.
add pullups to better off you back and promote balance with your shoulders

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Was just in Nantucket for a week, so have been away from a computer for a bit.
 
Thanks to all three of you for taking a glance at this, I really appreciate it. 
 
On diet, I've cut out soda for several weeks now, other than like one a week.  For the most part, corn syrup is a gonner from my diet.  Refined sugar is pretty much gone.  Trying to make sure I get complex carbs. 
 
I'll work on the shoulders routine, looking at your suggestions. 
 
on the curls - I'm not doing a whole lot of curls, imho, could you elaborate some more?
 
Pullups - I wish I could, but don't have anywhere to do it...  lol.. I work with circus performers, you should see the pullups they can do - one armed . . .

Routine has further evolved, I've revised & simplified it, still targetting 3 sets of 8-12 reps (to failure), making steady progress.

Day 1:
Squat
Straight leg Deads
lying triceps extension
hammer curl

Day 2: off

Day 3:
bench press
OH press
bicycle crunches
lat raise & front raise superset
rows

Day 4: off

lather, rinse, repeat!
basically a workout every other day.

the tricep iso's are because my triceps are what give out on me when doing bench & oh presses.  the curls are because I can't do pullups.  the lat & front raises are because my shoulders really need the work.

hit 150 lbs finally.  Suits & dress shirt collars are getting snug, what with the 18lb weight gain since early May.  No longer pencil-necked.  165 lbs goal by December 31!