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double checking the ol' workout

coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2005/08/05, 11:43 AM hi, i am just curious whether or not i have a decent workout schedule. i can only lift 4 times a week b/c of my schedule and those 4 days are only m-thursday. mon- chest/bi tue- legs/abs wed- shoulders/tri thu- back/abs the reasoning for this is that my chest and tri workout used to be on the same day but i changed it because i found myself to be too tired to finish up all the exercises and still use good form. essentially the same with shoulders/bi but not to that extent. is this a good workout? im 185lbs and 6'2(normally people want to know). thanks a lot- nate
bropie Posts: 1,084 Joined: 2004/12/04	2005/08/05, 01:13 PM looks fine.. are you still progressing? if you find you are not you can experiment with # of reps, rest time, exercises, intensity, supersets, drop sets, etc.
coolnatedawg Posts: 813 Joined: 2005/03/09	2005/08/08, 04:43 PM im progressing in everythin but chest... i cant seem to move up at all on bench. i normally take about 30s-1min on resting and i do 2 sets of 8 reps. for example my chest workout is: bbell bench, dbell decline press, dbell bench flyes, incline dbell press. im not 100% sure what supersets or drop sets are so please let me know. and i appreciate all the help. thanks -nate
bropie Posts: 1,084 Joined: 2004/12/04	2005/08/08, 08:09 PM switch up your chest workoout every once and awhile.. try out dumbells instead of barbells, switch up the order, increase your rest period. every once and awhile go for a bench max too. a superset is doing one exercise followed immediately by another (ie. i do 10 reps of a dumbell bench press and then immediately do 8 reps of a hamstring curl). this is good to save time and speed up a workout, or really tax a muscles endurance if you superset itself with itself (ie. bench press followed by dumbell flyes). drop sets are another endurance tactic predominantly. its when you do, say however many reps with 80 lbs., then however many with 60 lbs., then however many with 40 lbs, etc. you can superset this again, doing each drop immediately after the other, or you could also do something like a pyramid, where say you lift 40, rest, 50, rest, 60, rest, 50, rest, 40. the important thing is to mix up your workout. dont stick with the same thing all the time, keep changing the variables and you will keep growing.