Yeah, I totally agree with Dark Horse - Less is often more, for sure.
Another suggestion that I used myself way back is to make a list of about 15 or so compound/powr/strength exercises and make sure you get them all in within a 10-12 day period using a 5 x 5 routine, keep a log of your poundage and add 1.25 - 5 lbs or so on the next 10 -12 day period.
for ex.:
take these exercises .. (again just a suggestion - that I know works for strength):
1. Squats
2. Lunges
3. Deadlift
4. Straight leg or Romanian Deadlift
5. Flat B.B./D.B. Press
6. Inc. B.B./D.B. press
7. Military Press
8. D.B. Shoulder press
9. Bent over Rows
10. 1 arm rows
11. Pull-ups/Chin-ups
12. Dips
13. Shrugs
14. Power cleans
15. Straight B.B. curl
16. Close grip bench
If this is your list of exercises then you would make sure you get a 5 x 5 routine in once with each in a 10-12 day period or so, keep a log to avoid redundancy and promote progress and work your ass off and eat, eat, eat.
just another suggestion to mull over. After I lost some strength bcuz of some fighting, and football injuries last year I worked like this for a 3 month period and blew away old personal bests afterwards.
Just a note: because I was only working every 3rd day or so I was starting every workout with Squats, heavy squats. I used the routine Randall J. Strossen talks about in his book Super Squats - where you take the weight that you normally do x10 with and do x20 instead - its difficult, it burns, it hurts but it works. After my injuries I started doing this x20 routine (after a number of warm up sets) with only 250. That was Nov. last year after my flag football season. I now do it with 405, do 555 for reps. and 625 from the down position. Massive strength gains really fast this way - but I NEVER missed a workout when I planned it and ALWAYS worked hard. Sometimes I actually collapsed and couldn't effin move for 5 minutes after a set, but Im enjoying the rewards now.
Try it, you may like it
Best of luck
A few books you may like to look at:
"Dinosaur Training, Lost secrets of strength and development"
-Brooks Kubik
"Super Squats"
-Randall J. Strossen
And a website:
www.ironmind.com
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