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Originally Posted by Ali M  Hello Sir... interesting training routine you got going there dude, couple of questions for you, do you feel that the muscle gets a good workout? you don't seem to be doing much for shoulders do you feel that they are getting a good workout?
P.s. i like the look of putting the pulls together and pushes together, do you feel that you have benefited better from this unaurthodoxed style of training? |
Howdee mate.
Push/Pull/Legs is a fairly common 3day split.
Now the routine I didn't design - Pikey did that for me.
Pikey will prob dive in and explain better than me but he's what I understood from what he told me.
Basically everything is to failure - so weight selection is very important. I'm using moderate weight for reps to try and stimulate growth.
Everything is done very intensely which is important.
I looked at the routine and thought it would be fairly easy. Simply put - I was wrong.
Leg day I can barely walk afterwards (but in a good way) and I've never had a chest workout as good as the push day. Still need to do his pull day which will be tonight (had to shift training around a bit this week)
With the moderate weights and going for reps, I'm pre-exhausting the muscle and then using a variety of exercises to ensure as much of each are of the muscle is stimulated as possible.
I've never done pre-exhausts before but I tell you what they are much harder than I thought.
Shoulders are getting more work that before mate (they were lagging a bit) in the form of:
Military Press
Side Lateral DB Raises
Lying DB Raises
and Shrugs
To be honest I would never have picked this routine for myself - but when a bloke of Pikey's experience designs a training schedule for you personally its time to listen and learn...
I like doing the big lifts cos its a good ego boost. This routine leaves the ego at the door seriously... I ended up having to do a drop set on the last set of incline DB presses where I was only using 16kg dumbs for 5reps...
Lying DB raises were done with the girly silver 6kg dumbs...
The routine gets each muscle to failure and makes you keep going...