Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Constructing Workouts

Zenkei18
Zenkei18
Posts: 277
Joined: 2005/06/22
United States
2005/10/21, 06:43 PM
On the day that I make my workouts up I wonder is there any absolute guidelines I should follow when picking them out... I am getting 2 exercises per major muscle group and only training the major one time per week and am using a 3 day split... I don't think there isn't anything really that would be overtraining with this but any warnings?
mikencharleston
mikencharleston
Posts: 1,585
Joined: 2002/01/09
United States
2005/10/21, 08:37 PM
Your profile says you're wanting to put on mass. No offense but I would really be surprised if you're showing much progress. Have you tried any of the FT programs? From your post, 2 exercises per and assuming 3 sets each .... If you're only doing 6 sets for a major muscle group you aren't going to put on much mass unless you're lifting some huge weight. Even then it will be marginal.

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Mike
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Zenkei18
Zenkei18
Posts: 277
Joined: 2005/06/22
United States
2005/10/21, 10:36 PM
What makes you assume I haven't shown much progress. Actually, in fact I did try the 8 week mass program. I gained about 13 lbs on it and hit a plateau that's why I'm making new workouts. I DON'T use a 3 set per exercise, I go 4, and I always lift heavy. The mass programs are designed the same way, 2 exercises per muscle group, so why criticize how I am constructing mine when FT does theirs the same way?