change in routine please advise

[evansss]

This same post is on my training log as well:

I've given up on DC, and yes its only been 1 week of doing it but too much shit has gone wrong while i was trying it out. im sure it wasnt the program but im gonna go back to the 5x5 with basically the same program that i was doing before, but modified a bit. tell me what you guys think.

Day 1:
Chest/Calves
• Flat Bench 5x5
• Incline DB press 3x 8-10
• Incline fly 3x8-10
• Standing calves 3x15
• Sitting calves 3x15

Day 2:
Shoulders/Back
• DB Press 5x5
• Lat raises 3x8-10
• Shrugs 3x8-10
• Deadlifts 5x5
• Cable row 3x8-10
• Lat pull down 3x8-10


Day 3: Ab's and Cardio

Day 4:
Bi’s and tri’s
• Alt DB Curls 5x5
• BB curls 3x8-10
• Pinwheel curls3x8-10
• skull crushers 5x5
• rope pull down 3x8-10
• tri extension ( 1 arm db) 3x8-10

Day 5:
Legs
• Squat 5x5
• Leg Press 3x8-10
• Quad ext. 3x8-10
• Ham curls 3x8-10

Day 6:Rest

Day 7: Ab's and Cardio


I added shrugs to shoulders and though i orig. had them in the first 5x5 i never did them for some reason. do you think its a bit much for that workout? again, same for the leg press that i added for legs.

 

[MANOWAR]

Why isolate your arms?

The 5x5 looks good but why not just stick with the 3 day routine

 

[evansss]

Why isolate your arms?

The 5x5 looks good but why not just stick with the 3 day routine

because you work 3 different muscles with arms. bi's tris and forarms. its not like im isolating biceps alone. i changed the arm routine a bit because i was starting to lose shape in my arm, didnt like the way it was looking.

 

[Big Nazty]

I've given up on DC, and yes its only been 1 week of doing it but too much shit has gone wrong while i was trying it out. .

What went wrong with the DC?

 

[fullypaully]

jsut curious cause i dont know myself l see other people doing it also..why would you do calves on a seperate day to legs?

Personally i dont like to train any lower body muscles with a top body muscle just cause i like to keep all the blood and repairing crap in one part of my body

 

[evansss]

What went wrong with the DC?

Nothing went wrong but I just felt as if i didnt understand the program as a whole well enough to get the benifits from it. . . that is, the training was down but all the other aspects werestill unknown so i took the lazy way out and just deaded it.

jsut curious cause i dont know myself l see other people doing it also..why would you do calves on a seperate day to legs?

Personally i dont like to train any lower body muscles with a top body muscle just cause i like to keep all the blood and repairing crap in one part of my body

Just an idea that i tried, and i liked it. also, since my calfs are lagging i thought i'd put them on a separate day to isolate them more and work them when they were fresh. Plus, my leg days include squats and leg presses and by the end of those two exercises im pretty much shot to shit.

 

[fullypaully]

Just an idea that i tried, and i liked it. also, since my calfs are lagging i thought i'd put them on a separate day to isolate them more and work them when they were fresh. Plus, my leg days include squats and leg presses and by the end of those two exercises im pretty much shot to shit.

fair enoughs then...you'll kinda be working calves twice a week in a way

 

[evansss]

fair enoughs then...you'll kinda be working calves twice a week in a way

i need to anyway i got really shitty calves....bad genetics i suppose...quads are big but i cant get the calves up to par.

 

[fullypaully]

i need to anyway i got really shitty calves....bad genetics i suppose...quads are big but i cant get the calves up to par.

your not the only 1..my calves suck the bum hole also.

 

[evansss]

your not the only 1..my calves suck the bum hole also.

mine are fairly strong though. i think they're also like that from years of playing hockey as you'll notice hockey players usually have large quads and skinny calves.