New Routine. Please critique.

[Winter]

I was just reading up on what IA wrote and though I don't really understand it much, I'm planning on changing my current routine of hitting a muscle/muscle group only once a week to 2-3x a week. Please critique this:

Tuesday
Chest/Triceps
Wednesday
Biceps/Back
Thursday
Legs/Shoulders
Friday
OFF
Saturday
Chest/Biceps
Sunday
OFF
Monday
OFF
Tuesday
Legs/Triceps
Wednesday
Biceps/Back
Thursday
Chest/Shoulders
Friday
OFF
Saturday
Legs/Triceps
Sunday
OFF
Monday
OFF

Note that I'm going to be changing this up every 2 weeks. I'm going to do low volume at high weights/low reps. Please give me some insight!

 

[Behemoth]

If you want to hit each muscle twice a week, you might be better off using an upper/lower split, or even a push/pull split if you want to do that. For something like this to work for you, you'll need to focus more on the compounds and keep isolations to a bare minimum. Good luck though, I've had my best results from this sort of training.

What lifts were you planning on using? I always like to center mine around deadlifts (conventional or over/under grip), full squats, dips, bentover rows, military press and chins. You can substitute bench press for dips if you want. Sometimes I do a set of curls at the end of the workout if I really want to.

Have you ever looked at 5x5?

 

[Winter]

Firstly, yes, I have done 5x5 for my chest workouts. I've never done them for squats/deads.

I'm planning on doing a 3x3 chest workout starting this saturday.

I'm planning on doing a lot of benching, squatting and deadlifting. I will be doing a good amount of shoulder isolation. That's probably about it because they are weak/lacking in strength and size. Something like biceps/triceps, I usually do no more than 8sets isolated.

 

[Winter]

My real question is, will this routine be too much? I mean I do hit a body part/muscle group 2-3x in 2weeks. I'm not used to doing more than 1x a week so ya.

 

[Behemoth]

It depends on how much volume you are going to use. Obviously, you'll want to cut back volume a bit per workout session. You said in another post that you recover slowly, so you probably won't be able to do your normal workouts more often. Also, I don't know how often you go to failure, but you may want to cut that back a little too.

Oh, and by 5x5, I meant the actual routine. It's probably posted around here somewhere. 5x5 is a good routine. You'd probably want to do single factor first if you decided to go with that.

 

[Behemoth]

Here is a decent link about 5x5 if you are interested:

http://www.****************/forum/showpost.php?p=4764723&postcount=381

 

[blackbeard]

winter have a look through this thread by IA
http://www.steroidology.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56428

case you missed it its at the top of this forum in the sticky section