 Is this routine too much
Posted this a while back but still not sure about it.
I train to failure on every set of every exercise and include about 2 drop sets on each muscle goup. What do you think of this routine:
For example, Day 1 routine:
Chest
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Bench 2 warm up, 3 failure sets
Incline Dumbells: 3 failure sets
Pec Dec: 2 drop sets (4 drops)
Cable Cross: 3 failure sets
Shoulders
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shoulder raise: 1 warm up, 3 failure sets
Deltoid Raise: 3 failure sets
Upright row: 2 drop sets (4 sets drop)
Front Dumbell Raise: 3 failure sets
Triceps
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Seated Dips: 3 failue (well sort of)
push down (not sure what its called) 2 drop sets
Stomach - usual stuff, if I can keep the effort up
Takes about 1hr 20 minutes
Some points
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- If I'm totally honest the odd 'failure set' is a bit half hearted
- After this I am totally knackered. Its taken me a long time to get to this stage and definitely need to be on creatine, but I find since I can only train 3 times a week, so about 4 to 5 days between each body part I need to totally exhaust myself. After about 2/3 months I am getting fatigued and need to scale back for a week or 2
- If I do any less I don't feel like I have done enough.
- The weights start to get really light and girly as I get towards the end exercise of the muscle group, i.e the Cable Cross or Front Raise
- I try something similar on Day 2 (Legs + Back) but this is really tough!!
- I am thinking of either
a) drop an exercise per muscle group, or
b) go to a 3 day split so, 1 muscle group trained intensely per week
- The sets are keep to 8 to 10 which I think might be too low but the drop set accounts for about say 24 to 30 continuous reps I suppose!
What are your thoughts dudes
Cheers all
John |