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    My first push legs pull routine

    Yea so I decided to start doing a push legs pull routine and I just did my first Push day today. Tomorrow is my leg day and I think I got this routine down. I attached photos of my push and leg routine including the sets and reps, might add another exercise to legs? What do you guys think?
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    are the exercises in the following order in which they should be completed? if so then i do not see why your doing 2 chest moments, then a delt movement, then a triceps exercise, then back to chest again, then back to shoulders, then finishing off with triceps, makes 0 sense, You should be hitting all your chest movements first and then moving on to delts or triceps, probably delts since they are larger but whatever you need too bring up, An example of frank zanes push workout while prepping for the olympia went like this, bench press, 5-6 sets pyramiding up to a heavy set of like 4, then I think he did high incline dumbbell press, then he did flys on a SLIGHT decline, then finished with pullovers, then he moved on to triceps: Smith machine CGB, one arm overhead extension, then cable press down, for delts i think he just did a cable side lateral raise since his front delts were already hit hard from the incline presses. the leg workout looks like it is relatively low volume, only 1 hamstring exercise and 2 quad exercises? and 35 second rest for everything? are you trying to build endurance? lifts like squats require much more rest depending on how heavy you are going, usually up towards 3 minutes. If you want endurance then I can understand, but i think for legs 2-3 minute rest periods are suitable, unless at the end where your going for a big pump on something like leg curls or extensions you could cut it down to 30-45. And i dont see the point in super setting a shoulder press with a triceps exercise, legs need way more volume at least throw in a leg press or hack squat, unless your legs already overpower the rest of your body. I know pros who had legs that overpowered their upper so they just stopped training legs all year so their upper could catch up, and guys like Franco Columbu had strong legs already so he would just go in, do squats, then leave. I feel like you should be adding more for Hams to, to many people don't give them enough attention,
    Last edited by Hard_Body; 12-16-2014 at 09:57 PM.

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    Yea I'm going to add dumbbell stiff leg deadlift to my routine after the lying leg curls. The squats are also hitting my hamstrings as usually go past parallel. I do like to keep my endurance high during a my lifts but the 35 second are just there by default, I take rests up to 1 and a half minutes. I did do those workouts in that order for no reason just went with the flow at the moment but I'll keep that in mind thanks

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    Honestly I would not do a flat dumbbell press and a decline dumbbell man, since their hitting relatively the exact same area, you have no upper chest exercise... and upper chest makes up a large portion of the chest, better option would be doing like a flat bench then doing a dumbbell incline or machine incline press, or doing a barbell incline press then doing a machine or flat dumbbell press, are you doing dead lifts on the pull day? yeah even 1 and a half minutes is not a lot on squats, Just do all your chest movements first then move onto delts and triceps, you could throw in a lunge to on the leg day

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    The lower cable flys hit upper chest and yea I could change the decline presses but this is just 1 of my 3 push variations that I created so far that I plan on cycling on order so I can have a day that's mainly upper chest. And I usualy do rack pulls instead of deadlifts

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    Make sure the rack pulls are below the knees, I did them as an ego lift above the knees for months, lost all my strength I had built dead lifting, couldn't even pull 275 without my back bending, But I have quickly regained all that lost strength in the past couple months and am much stronger, racks above knees honestly did nothing for me, just messed up my cns due to the amount of weight i was using, I could work up to almost 600 pounds on them strapless but didn't do anything. I feel as though rack pulls are more for the advanced trying to isolate their back better and bring in that detail and Christmas tree but as a intermediate or beginner dead's will give you the best results in terms or size and strength over the rack pull, but the rack pull is still a good lift for building up the traps especially, just don't rely on it
    Last edited by Hard_Body; 12-16-2014 at 10:36 PM.

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    Looks alright man one thing would be to finish chest before you do triceps and.. no flat bench? My favorite thing to do for a push day is Flat bench then Military press (standing barbell overhead press) then incline bench, then maybe some laterals and triceps to finish.

    And for legs you could probably add another set for front squats since you're not deadlifting you need a little more volume. Do you have a heavy day for legs?

    Overall looks fine man just stick to it and fine tune it as you go.

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    Yea I'm going to work chest then delts then triceps next time and I don't like barbell benching or barbell anything pretty much ever since I injured my left shoulder a long time ago while flat benching with shitty for, I feel like my shoulder has never been the same since then even with all the mobility work and stretching. Yea I'm going to add more volume to legs and I don't like doing heavy on legs just as my personal preference. Thanks and I will be sticking with this and fine tuning as I go on like you said, Im excited to see results.

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