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2004/05/31, 11:15 AM
Good morning all, and I hope you're having a great Memorial Day!
I'm in my fourth or fifth week of weight training. I'm loving it and seeing some small results.
However, because of my hectic schedule, I'm having to cram all of my exercises into three workouts per week. That's not leaving me time to do all the exercises I'd like to do.
I've thought about switching to a five day program where I do a limited number of exercises per day so that I can do them all in a weeks time. In other words, each day I'd concentrate on one part of my body and the exercises associated with it. The problem, or my concern rather, with this is that I'd only be working out that part of my body or doing that exercise once a week.
My question is: Is doing an exercise once a week sufficient enough to tone, develop and build that region of muscles?
Lastly, does anyone have a good routine that groups all the major exercises together for a five-day-a-week-program?
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2004/05/31, 12:00 PM
Focus on compound exercises for your large muscle groups, and save isolation work for when you are more advanced.
So on leg day you would focus on squats, deadlifts, leg presses, lunges
On chest/back day you could do supersets of chest press/lat pulldowns, incline db presses, lowrows, 2-3 exercises for each.
Folow up that with some overhead shoulder presses and you have a good upper body workout.
Now you can do cardio on day three, and repeat the two workouts above on day 4, 5. cardio one day on the weekend, rest one day.
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