I've got bulging disks in my l3,4,and 5. Plus I've got the beginnings of degenerative disk disease. I thank my mom for it and recently found out about it the beginning of this year.

I have been working on my squats and deadlifts though. I do keystone deadlifts because I feel it more in my hammies.

And the reason why I said that "Volume was a grave mistake" is because I some how let a couple of people on another bodybuilding board shake my thinking, but after talking to a friend of mine who I know and who has a great body tell me the exact same thing as you did and what I had thought myself, that there is no one size fits all.

DC training was what I was talking about. I went on the boards and did some questioning and was told by one of the people there that I should probably gain some more weight before going at it. He said probably around 215. I think that's a bit much, but he's probably right because I should get my squats/deads up first.

I have to say that in my routines I did do heavy weight, heavy for me anyways. Obviously i'm not pushing around 300lbs, but I don't go light.

What is your opinion on the above routine I listed? Too many exercises? Too many sets? Should I maybe tone down the exercises and maybe do like a Workout A1,A2 for chest and so on with different exercises for each?