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Old 10-03-2007, 08:18 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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What you have listed is not a routine. It is just a list of exercises and days.

Not only is doing an exercise for each individual slice of your anatomy unecessary, it is ill advized. For one thing it is not really possilbe to truly isolate all those individual parts. All you'll really do is overwork smaller muscles at the expense of larger one and ultimately form injury causing and strength robbing imbalances.

For another thing the body simply doesn't work that way. It is not a collection of individual parts but a whole and integrated machine...from you head to your toes in fact...and it should be worked that way.

The workload, in fact is not really that great. Because with a few exceptions you've specifically picked exercises where the weight that can be used is much less than the weight to be used in more natural compound movements. You may do a lot of volume in terms of reps and sets but the workload will be wimpy.

DITCH THE SHOULDER DAY....first rule for healthy shoulders.

If you have a barbell you can do deadlifts as Cradler said, and deadlift deriviatives. These will work you from the ankles up to the traps. Including the quads, the core musculature, etc. and so on.

If you seriouly can't do squats then lunges are excellent but they are not a "ham isolation". Stride length determines the degree to which hams or quads are emphasized. Step-ups are perfect for developing the hips and legs as well. Variations on the split squat too such as bulgarian splits.

Between overhead lifts (press), bench press, and rows the entire shoulder is worked and then worked some more on other things. Not to mention the traps, romboids, lats, pecs, etc.

Pullups are fantastic.

With all these compound movements every muscle will be worked to some degree. The extent to which you want to do some of the other stuff will be to introduce balance where it seems wanting or where it is found to exist. The other things may be used as assistors to help develop the primary exercises.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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