So many exercises, so little flat bench and deadlift... Also not a fan of dips, way better options available
Jack Roberts
I just based this off coolcicadas PPL which is decently popular, no Deadlift whatsoever. From what I've gathered online it seems acceptable to just do incline press and then dips for lower chest.
How is the second routine WITH Deadlift in comparison?
Brandon Sanders
AB split 3 days a week A Squat 3x5 Bench 3x5 Kroc Row 2x10 1xfail Skull crushers 3x10 Farmers walks 3x length of my gym
B Dead 1xfail OHP 3x5 Weighted chins 3x10 Weighted dips 3x10 Suitcase walks 3xlength of gym
Levi Reed
Monday: HEAVY SQUATS/LIGHT DEADLIFTS (SUMO) Accessory: Leg press, lying leg curl, light OHP, abs.
Wednesday: HEAVY BENCH PRESS Accessory: Skullcrushers, dips, OHP, calves.
Friday: HEAVY DEADLIFTS/LIGHT SQUATS Accessory: Back/lats exercises, close grip bench (or flat bench/any variation focusing on form), barbell curls, abs.
Sunday: Pushups, pullups, dips.
Levi Butler
dips are awesome fuck you fight me
Owen Ortiz
531 with boring but big. Top left is current max, 90% and monthly addition.
I'll be adding 3-4 sets of bis and tris (pullups, skullcrushers and so on) on upper body days, then 3 sets of abs (hanging leg raises usually) + random bs on lower body days.
Brody Sullivan
the second one is much better, and you can do with just flat bench db press. Just work those until they don't have heavy enough db's, then go to bb. I'm getting close to the max db's at my gym, 46kg.
fite me irl cyka
Ryan James
Cool thanks. Btw I can't do leg extensions or hamstring curls (home gym)
As an alternative can I just do: DB Lunges and Stiff leg/Romanian deadlifts to target hamstrings and quads?
William Davis
As well as the rest of the leg day: squats hack squat etc
Leo Williams
Sure no problem, squats can also be enough for legs. Start off simple with good compounds and experiment from there, try to get a feel for how your body works and which exercises work best for you
Angel Scott
That's a relief I'll do that for sure. I always worried that by neglecting hamstring curls I'd miss out somehow
Christopher Sanders
Day One Power Clean – 4x5, 1x3 Pause Squat, 2s parallel hold – 1x3, 1x2, 6x3 Lunge Jumps – 3x12 Dumbell Step-Ups – 3x8, each leg Dumbell Split Squat – 3x8, each leg Bicep Curls – 3x10 Day Two Split Jerk – 4x5, 1x3 Explosion Bench – 1x5, 1x4, 5x3 Diamond Push-Up – 2x10, 1x12 Romanian Deadlift Shrugs – 3x8 Dumbell Incline Press – 3x8 Dumbell Rows (Supersetted with DB Incline) – 3x8 Day Three Dumbell Hang Snatch – 3x5 each hand, 2x3 each hand Back Squat – 5x5, 1x8 Pull Ups – 6 wide, 6 mid, 6 close Deadlift – 2x6, 1x4 Seated Row (Supersetted with deadlift) – 3x6 Barbell Iso Curls – 3x10, 3s hold Day Four Hang Clean – 4x5, 1x3 Bench Press – 2x6, 2x5, 1x4 Dumbell Romanian Deadlift Shrugs – 3x8 Dumbell Shoulder Press – 3x8 SL Hip Bridge (Supersetted with DB Shoulder Press) – 3x8, each leg Resisted Push Ups – 2xF
Is it alright? Any missed muscle groups?
Juan Young
Brehs, help me out. Would you rather do
PushxPullxPushxPullx
or
PushPullxPushPullxx
Variant 1 obviously has 1 workout less per 2 weeks, but it just looks like there would be so much more rest when not training on consecutive days. Any thoughts?
Austin Harris
Push: >I would alternate barbell and dumbbells for OHP and BP >I would ditch the shrugs and focus on different lateral raise variations with more sets >I would vary the triceps extensions you do each workout >Super high rep dips are better than weighted and also doing triceps/chest specific varients of dips aren't good exercises economically. Do a standard parallel bar dip with a slight lean and neither a too wide nor too narrow grip. Your elbows and rotator cuffs will thank you.
Pull: >Standard BB rows are complete ass. Your time could be better spent doing more pull-ups and pull-up variations for optimal lat development >Do reverse flye variations on push day. (See push above) replace with face pulls >In all honesty if you want the most bang for your buck trap exercise look into Olympic snatches and high pulls from the hang position.
Legs: >I would alternate split squats and lunges each training session >switch RDLs to Dumbbell RDL and do them at high reps with an extremely low tempo.
Overall 6/10
Ask me how I know you have been lifting for 18 months or less.
Breddy good/10 if you are a late novice level lifter. Youre gonna have to switch things up eventually as you are going to be banging your head against a wall in order to progress
Depends completely on exercise selection and your ability to recover babe. Post routine
Ryder Allen
So many meme exercise variations. I would worry about benching twice your body weight before doing things like "explosion bench"...
What is the goal of your training dude?
Lucas Stewart
This routine was given to me by the weighttraining teacher at my school. The routine itself is an adapted form of a lifting program for the University of Delaware. So I think this routine will emphasize strength and explosiveness. I, on the other hand, just want to get strong and look strong. The names of some the lifts are pure memery, you could easily just call an explosion bench a pause bench, but I didn't come u[ with the routine.
Noah Miller
Here, these are essentially the workouts as they are given to us. Just put your 1rm for certain lifts into the excel file and it gives you what weights to do. Its great for me because I'm lazy as hell.
Samuel Martinez
What are your lifts and how long have you been lifting? I'll hook you up
Jose Flores
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Jacob Thomas
H-hook me up with what? Ive been lifting since about the middle of september. Havent made much progress on bench but recently started taking creatine, pumped out the set easily today. Bench: 130 Squat: 205 (although I'm not sure if I went parallel. Teacher says my form was good, but I can barely go parallel with the weights the program gives me) Deadlift: 245 (havent tested max since I started) Power Clean: 145 OHP: 105
My main issue is that the only place I can work out is in my school's weight room, during class. It seems every gym I could use otherwise is just some pussy "fitness club" with rows of treadmills and dumbells that go up to 50.
Alexander Bell
First of all you are by all accounts a novice and the person that told you to do that routine is objectively a terrible strength and conditioning coach...
A: Push >(5x5) OHP / Flat BP (alternating) >(3x15 @ 60% 5x5 training weight) The opposite press you did 5x5 that workout. You can alternate flat bench press with incline Bench Press >(4x10 to 15) Dumbbell Lateral Raise variations / Reverse Flyes >(5 sets) Triceps Extension variations
B: Pull >(1x5), (3x3) Deadlift (all sets done with same training weight >(6x5) Weighted Chin-ups / (6x15) Bodyweight Pull-ups (alternating) >(5 sets) Biceps Curl variations
(Drop deadlifts from every 2nd pull workout: B2 and just do pull-ups and curl variations)
C: Lower Body >(5x5) Back Squat >(3x10-15) Barbell Front Squat / Dumbbell RDL (alternating) >(2x10) Deep Barbell Lunges >(5 sets) Calf Raise variations
A1 B1 x C1 x A2 B2 x C2 x Repeat ...etc.
Sorry if this is formatted like ass, I'm on my phone at work right now. The above routine is night and day superior than what that "coach" gave you. Let me know if you have any questions bro.
Ryan Rivera
It's also worth noting that if you wanted to add dips or push-up variations you could easily work them in at the end of your push days if you can handle the extra volume.
Brandon Rodriguez
Thanks. I believe the program was built for athletes, and everyone in the class got the same paper. No real personal customization besides 1rm.
Landon Parker
Cheers mate
Nathan Parker
Getting back in the gym with Candito's LP and I'm concerned that I might be fucking it up badly since I'm mixing control and hypertrophy
Heavy lower: Squat 3x6 DL 2x6 Front Squat 3x8 Snatch grip DL 3x8
Control lower: Paused squat 6x4 Paused DL 3x4 Rack pulls 3x4 w/ pause at the top for as long as possible because I'm mainly trying to improve weak grip Farmer's walks 3xF once again trying to improve grip
isn't deadlifting 2 times and squatting 3 times on the same week a bit too much?
Jordan Reyes
Day 1 – Chest - Bench 5/3/1 with first rep last - Incline Bench 5x10 @ 50-70% WM - Face Pulls 5x10 - Chestly Flyes 3x10 Day 2 – Deadlift - Deadlift 5/3/1 with first rep last - Squats 5x10 @ 50-70% WM - Pull ups (bodyweight) 5x10 - Incline Curls 3x8 - Reverse Curls 3x8 Day 3 – Shoulders - OHP 5/3/1 with first rep last - Bench 5x10 @ 50-70% WM - Face Pulls 5x10 - Lateral Raises 3x8 Day 4 – Squats - Squats 5/3/1 with first rep last - Deadlift 5x10 @ 50-70% WM - Pulls ups (weighted) 3x6 or F - Dumbbell Row 3x8
Sebastian Cook
Nah man, this is whys its my starting routine after I take a break.
It got me to, 125kg squats x 5 and 165kg deadlift x1, 50kg OHP x 5 and 85kg bench x 5.
I normally stall at this point if I'm cutting, the physical gains are pretty good tbf, But then I move onto something thats weekly progression instead of just adding 2.5kg onto each lift every time I lift.
Robert Lee
Weight your pullups If you're doing bicep work, you should be doing it in the hypertrophy range
Carson Thompson
Can't do strength bicep training?
Cameron Flores
Not this guy but- Its pretty pointless bro..
Kevin Phillips
You strength train the big movements. Strength training a curl ( a movement that uses one muscle and never used IRL) is a waste of your time