Workouts Routine 1 my work outs over the course of 5 years have changed many times. It started with 2 body part per day utilizing 2 exercises per body part. Then for example, i would do a bench for 3 sets, go to triceps for 3 sets, back to a chest like dumb bell press for 3, then back to a triceps for 3 sets. Not exactly recommended but as i was new, anything seemed to work to build those beginner gains. The idea behind this was so that my chest could just about fully regain strength to do the next sets and vice versa. Routine 2 Then after doing some easy short research, i learned about focusing on one muscle group for 3 exercises to simply kill and punish that one muscle, then move to the other muscle group for the day. For example, shoulders for 3 exercises 3 sets each, then biceps for 3 exercises for 3 sets each. This worked great but i dont think at this time i was really pushing myself to muscle failure. Just a little beyond the point of that uncomfortable feeling then id stop my set. This also did great because i was still building on my beginner gains. did this about 5 days a week. Routine 3 (over training... i know. Probably going catabolic too. I enjoyed it.) This was a horrible mess but i loved it. The same idea as routine 2. focus on one body part first, then move to the second. But id throw into the mix drop sets, negatives, high reps, low reps, pyramid sets, compound sets, rest pauses. Just about everything but super sets. And id work each muscle group with about 5 or 6 different exercises just to try and full blow shred each muscle. Workouts were long. maybe 3 hours. Had gains on this but i wasnt exactly tracking my progress at this time. doing this for maybe about 5 days a week. for about 6 months. Routine 4 So then i decided to go back to the drawing board and do a simple 2 muscle group per day, 8-12 reps, 3 sets workout. Just to start from basics and track my progress. So broke my workout into a 5 day split (I think thats the terminology?). I broke up the different muscle groups in my back into separate days so i could really spend time on every individual muscle group on my back. I really wanted to add some size and definition to my back. This routine went great. Simple easy. maybe about 45 minutes to 1:15 tops. got good gains but eventually the gains started to top off. Ill write the routine im on on in another post. Also will get more into detail on the individual routines i posted here on other posts. Gotta go!
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:52:26 +0000
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