New routine

[MrMeathead]

Hey bros. I just wanted to post my routine up and see if any of you gurus out there see anything that can improve it. Any help would be highly appreciated. I do one warm up set to warm my muscles up then 3 sets each consisting of 15,10, 5 reps for all exercises besides abs and lower back which i do 25 reps per set. Each workout i do 30 minutes of cardio before the weights. Each week I switch the exercises from workout A to workout B. Anyways heres my routine layout.

Week 1

Workout A---- Workout B

Day 1- chest/front and side delts/tris/abs
incline dumbbell press---- flat bench dumbell press
flat barbell bench press---- incline barbell press
cable flies---- incline cable flies
military press---- dumbbell shoulder press
dumbbell side lateral raises---- upright rows
barbell shrugs---- dumbbell shrug
dips---- close grip bench press
decline skullcrushers---- tricep pull downs
crunches/reverse crunches---- side crunch/reverse side crunch


Day 2- off

Day 3- back/rear delts/bis/forearms/abs
incline dumbbell rows---- dumbbell rows
barbell rows---- t-bar rows
wide grip chinups---- close grip pull ups
bent over dumbbell laterals---- rear delts on machine
dumbbell curls---- barbell curls
preacher ez bar curls---- dumbell preacher curls
reverse grip curls---- wrist curls
wrist curls from behind---- reverse wrist curls
side crunches/reverse side crunches---- crunches/ reverse crunches

Day 4- off

Day 5- quads/hams/lower back/calves
squats---- leg press
leg press---- hack squats
leg extensions---- leg extensions
lying leg curls---- seated leg curls
barbell stiff leg deadlift---- dumbbell stiff leg deadlift
good mornings---- back extensions
standing calf raises---- seated calf raises
reverse calf raises machine---- reverse calf raises on machine
crunches/reverse crunches---- side crunch/reverse side crunch

Day 6- off

Day 7- off

[MartyMcFly]

Why back and lower back on dif days. Why cardio before workout why not on days off. Abs after one day of rest. Would you bench after one day of rest. Sorry for the stream of conscience reply but am reading and writing. Not bad but why not stick to the same thing and work different exercises in/out as needed. I am going on 3 day a week program myself now. Mon-Bench, Wed-Dead, Fri-Squat and build the other exercises around this.

[MrMeathead]

I choose to throw lower back in on leg day due to the fact that my lower back is already pretty much gone from from the stiff leg deadlifts and doing it on back day just resulted in over training to me. I like doing cardio before hitting the weights soo i can get warmed up before and soo i can consume my pwo shake directly after my weight training session. I used to do it on the OFF days like you do but I seem to feel better and have more intense workouts but by resting and not having to worry about messing with it on my day off. I used to think the same thing about hitting abs EOD but after taking advice from alot of successful bodybuilders and just people that workout for a hobby at my gym i decided to give it a try. So far it seems to work great as long as i hit it from different angles each time and keep the reps high. "no weighted abs". Thanks for your reply MartyMcFly. Are you trying to increase your lifts with the the routine split your about to go on for powerlifting or for bodybuilding? Most of the powerlifters at my gym follow that same split you just wrote out and throw in other workouts around it in order to increase those specific lifts.