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General Advice Anonymous
I'm still relatively new to the whole weight lifting thing, so i'm curious about some exercises and the recovery you need to give the muscles. Here is my current workout routine.

Monday/Friday

5x5 Bench Press
3x10 Dumbell Bench Press
3x10 Barbell Shoulder Press
3x10 Incline Bench Press (using a machine for this one)
3x10 Barbell Curls
3x10 Dumbell Curls
5x5 SQUATZ
5x5 Deadlift

Wednesday

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>> Anonymous
give it up mouse, those aren't real weights. that looks like a plastic prop. you're only kidding yourself if you think you're going to make gains with that. use a pinecone instead, or better yet, try body-weight excercises.
>> Anonymous
the mouse is not the point, leave it alone :P
>> Anonymous
Way too much of everything.

What are your weight lifting goals?

You could drop all of that stuff bar the squats and deadlifts and add bench press, press and power cleans.

Also.. you should only do one heavy set of 5 reps on the deadlift... and not three times a week. Alternate the deadlift for sure.
>> Anonymous
3/10
>> Kitty-Moogle-Chan
Agreed on alternating the deadlift. The number of times I've hurt my back isn't worth it (just minor, thankfully).

Avoid the smith machine for the incline press. Use dumbbells instead if you have to. One thing a lot of people don't realize is that you can get as much out of dumbbell bench presses as barbell bench presses if you're doing them right. It still works the same muscles.

If you can't do dips, cable pushdowns are, as I've found out the hard way, *not* a useful substitute. Do partial dips until failure instead.

For pullups, cable pulldowns SUCK as a replacement as well. I can pulldown 70lbs 5x5 but can't do more than a couple pullups. So I quit that, started doing fatman pullups for a while until I can do real ones.

5x5 SQUATZ every second day is fine. I do that too.

I'd keep the deadlifts down to 1x5 and alternate them. That's again what I do.

You seem to be doing pretty well though, and what works for other people may not work best for you. Are you getting results? Are you not hurting yourself? Well then make small changes instead of big ones for now. :)
>> Anonymous
Well i'm not trolling, thats the workout my trainer suited best for me, except Squats and Deadlifts where he once again suggested a machine. Actually, there were machines everywhere in my workout until i slowly started to get rid of them for free weights.
I'll go for a 1x5 Deadlift now and look into the Triceps Dip. Currently i'm using a machine and the cable pushdown, should i skip them both and do "real" Dips instead, like 3x10?
And regarding these fatman pullups, how do they work?
>> Anonymous
Lulz @ anyone who squats more than once a week.
If you are, you're definately doing something wrong.

You're either not pushing yourself hard enough or you're not giving yourself enough time to recover.
>> Anonymous
>>178041
thats bullshit. you just outed yourself as a total noob.

you can squat 3x a week, fuck you can squat every day. some programs like smolov have squatting in every single workout. you just do only one working set per day, or squat 3x80% or 5x70% or different, it depends on what the program calls for. one your newbie gains slow down you have to take a structured approach to getting more weight on the bar, and sometimes that means squatting every day at different %'s and rep ranges
>> Anonymous
>>178041
Some people recover better than others. I can do legs like 3 times a week for 3 weeks before I finally feel broken down. As it is now, I do heavy leg press like 4 times a week to just get a big muscle group work at almost every workout, no matter what else I'm doing.