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As I have posted before I'm just starting out so please bear with me. I have set a work out regime but I would like to know if I have set it up right. I'm aiming for weight loss and putting muscle back on. I work out on Mondays Wednesday Friday. I do cardio on Tuesday and Thursday.

Mondays: Chest/Back
Tuesday: Cardio Treadmill or Elliptical
Wednesday: Legs/Arms
Thursday: Cardio Treadmill or Elliptical
Friday: Abs/Shoulders
Saturday: Light Cardio (walk on home Treadmill)
Sunday: Rest

Chest: Bench press / Decline / Incline
Back: Row seated / Lat pull downs / Hyper extensions
Legs: Extensions / Curls / Squats / Leg Press
Arms: Bicep / Triceps curl / Pull Downs
Abs: Ab Crunch Machine
Shoulders: Front Dumbbell Raise / Machine Shoulder (Military) Press
Cardio: 1 hr at 85% Heart Rate
Light Cardio: Walk 1 to 2 miles.

Hope this is enough info to tell me if I'm doing this right. Also diet changes have been made to go along with my goals. Thank You All for any advice you can give me.

do you have a way to do dips? that would be a good addition to your chest workout...i'm assuming they are all barbell presses? one is probably good enough...if you really want two...do a flat barbell press, and an incline db press...and some dips.

ya know...you might be better off searching for rippetoes starting strength program on here....and running that

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Thank You for the suggestions. Yes they are bb lifts. Due to serious uneven strength in my arms db are hard beacause my left arm quits way before my right. I was thinking that bb lifting until i start to get equal strength would be a better start or is this wrong? And if anyone else out there has any suggestions on reps to style to whatever I would appreciate the input. Thank You All.

That's wrong. If you lift more with a BB, that means you'll be cheating by lifting more weight on your stronger side, which will perpetuate the imbalance.

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How could that be? If you maintain a parallel bar then you will only be able to lift as much as your weak side. As long as we are talking about more simple movements like barbell curls, tricep extensions, esp..

It really just depends if your talking about a simple lateral descrepency in limb muscle strength or whether you are talking about more complex lateral (or other imbalances). From what this sounds like, bb should be the way to go, imo.

I'm glad you said something. I for some reason assumed bad form. It just sounded like he was trying to remedy the issue of bad form (EDIT: or strength imbalance) by lifting more weight via a barbell. I'm not thinking very clearly tonight...I agree with Eric. I normally recommend the same thing.

Well you could be right. I mean people can screw up form between one side and another using dumbells so that definitely needs to be consdered. Form is always one of the first things to consider...I couldn't agree more. It's probably easier to even out things in this way with barbells sans weird cheating movments...I mean it's more obvious to most people when they are cheating with bb's than with db's on one side or something...but you're right, Ross, good thought.