Please tell me what you think of this plan

RE: Please tell me what you think of this plan (MBMatt11)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:17:51 GMT

torque your response inspired me to look at my old plan http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/m_8817/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm and I found this new one, what do you guys think of this plan? http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/m_27107/mpage_1/key_frankie%252Cmass%252Cbuilding/tm.htm#27107 . Thanks for the feedback so far and anymore recommendations will be appreciated, I want to start my new plan on Tuesday, and this new one has me a little excited

RE: Please tell me what you think of this plan (torque)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:53:34 GMT

ORIGINAL: MBMatt11

This is the first plan I made on my own and I would love some feed back. Before this I did this plan http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/Frankie_NY%27s_Mass_Building_Program/m_8817/tm.htm and most recently I completed this plan http://www.mensfitness.com/workout/92 which I liked very much but my workout partner is leaving and its too hard to do alone with all the super sets. Here is the plan I thought of:

Tues: Legs and Shoulders
Squats (4 sets)
Stiff Leg dead lift (3 sets)
leg extension (2 sets) - No need for these. Your quads are already worked via squats.
leg curl (2 sets) - No need for these. Your hamstrings are being worked in squats and SLDL's.

Dumbbell military (3 sets)
side lateral (2 sets) - No need for this, your shoulders are being worked via military press.
forward lateral (2 sets)

Thurs: Chest and Tris
Dumbbell Incline Bench Press (3 sets) - No need for this, you are looking to exhaust the shoulders before bench press.
Dumbbell Bench Press (3 sets)
Dumbbell Decline Bench Press (2 sets) - Your chest is already getting worked via flat bench press.
Dumbbell Flies (2 sets) - Your chest is already getting worked through heavy benches.

Weighted Dips (3 sets)
Skull Crushers (2 sets) - Your tri's are getting worked via benches and dips.
Rope Pull down (2 sets) = Your tri's are getting worked via benches and dips.

Sat: Back and Bis
Deadlifts (4 sets)
Pull downs (3 sets)
Barbell Rows (2 sets)
Bent over laterals (2 sets) - This is a rear delt exercise. It should be thrown in with shoulders.

Chin ups (3 sets)
Barbell Curls (2 sets)
Dumbbell Hammer Curls (2 sets) - Your bi's are a very small muscle group. Every exercise via back will work your biceps. As well as barbell curls, these are not needed.

I was thinking of doing 10 reps for the first month or so since all my other plans were low reps, and then later I would switch to low reps. I'll also do cardio and abs on off days which is why I only wanted it three days. The idea was to start each muscle group out with a compound exercise and then a few isolation. One of my questions is do you think this is too many sets? Like should I only do 3 sets of squats, and deadlifts and the 2 sets of the exercise after. Thanks so much for your feedback.

In addition if you have any 3 day routines you'd recommend I'd love to check them out

You'd be much more beneficial to use a routine like this.

Day 1 - Full Squat, Bench, Row
Day 2 - Deadlift, OHP, Pullup's
Day 3 - BB Curls, Dips, Ab work

RE: Please tell me what you think of this plan (rocky1983)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:41:28 GMT

i would put the leg extensions and curls first as a warm up

i would take out the front raises and change them for the bent over laterals that you do on back day

i would take out the decline and flys for dips

for back i would take out the pull downs for pull ups 3 sets to failure and add 1 set to barbell rows and the bent over laterals move to shoulder day inplace of the front raises

Please tell me what you think of this plan (MBMatt11)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:24:06 GMT

This is the first plan I made on my own and I would love some feed back. Before this I did this plan http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/Frankie_NY%27s_Mass_Building_Program/m_8817/tm.htm and most recently I completed this plan http://www.mensfitness.com/workout/92 which I liked very much but my workout partner is leaving and its too hard to do alone with all the super sets. Here is the plan I thought of:

Tues: Legs and Shoulders
Squats (4 sets)
Stiff Leg dead lift (3 sets)
leg extension (2 sets)
leg curl (2 sets)

Dumbbell military (3 sets)
side lateral (2 sets)
forward lateral (2 sets)

Thurs: Chest and Tris
Dumbbell Incline Bench Press (3 sets)
Dumbbell Bench Press (3 sets)
Dumbbell Decline Bench Press (2 sets)
Dumbbell Flies (2 sets)

Weighted Dips (3 sets)
Skull Crushers (2 sets)
Rope Pull down (2 sets)

Sat: Back and Bis
Deadlifts (4 sets)
Pull downs (3 sets)
Barbell Rows (2 sets)
Bent over laterals (2 sets)

Chin ups (3 sets)
Barbell Curls (2 sets)
Dumbbell Hammer Curls (2 sets)

I was thinking of doing 10 reps for the first month or so since all my other plans were low reps, and then later I would switch to low reps. I'll also do cardio and abs on off days which is why I only wanted it three days. The idea was to start each muscle group out with a compound exercise and then a few isolation. One of my questions is do you think this is too many sets? Like should I only do 3 sets of squats, and deadlifts and the 2 sets of the exercise after. Thanks so much for your feedback.

In addition if you have any 3 day routines you'd recommend I'd love to check them out