A good weight routine?

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dpguitar

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Whats up, I was wondering what a good weight lifting routine is to get every muscle/area and get a good workout without over-doing it. My friend has this thing where he does every machine in the gym, and them dumbells. It seemed kind of stupid though sense like 3 of the machines show they target biceps and shoulder. I understand if one works biceps as a secondary and then doing a machine that does them primarily. Does it really help to do so much or should you do one machine for each muscle in 3 sets, then mabye the dumbells?
 
dpguitar said:
Whats up, I was wondering what a good weight lifting routine is to get every muscle/area and get a good workout without over-doing it. My friend has this thing where he does every machine in the gym, and them dumbells. It seemed kind of stupid though sense like 3 of the machines show they target biceps and shoulder. I understand if one works biceps as a secondary and then doing a machine that does them primarily. Does it really help to do so much or should you do one machine for each muscle in 3 sets, then mabye the dumbells?
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Base your workouts on compound movements. Compound movments are exercises that stimulate more than one muscle group at a time. Squats, presses (bench, military), rows, chins, deads, lunges, etc. Focus on these and a proper diet, you'll see results.
 
Electric, but I can do both. ;)

I decided to go with the full body workout. From the link you gave me, thanks tony. Im going to do it 3-4 times a week, I was reading this: http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=5A88DE198F198689B398FF969D13B06C.hydra?id=933431 . Whenever you do full bpdy workouts your supposed to tweak volume... im not exactly sure what that means, what is it and how do I do it to get the most out of the workouts?

*edit* im trying to get all this fat burned off and some muscle mass/definition. I dont know if that would make a diffrence in the weight i lifted or how often. id like to mabye loose 15 lbs by the middle of next month.
 
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dpguitar said:
Electric, but I can do both. ;)

I decided to go with the full body workout. From the link you gave me, thanks tony. Im going to do it 3-4 times a week, I was reading this: http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=5A88DE198F198689B398FF969D13B06C.hydra?id=933431 . Whenever you do full bpdy workouts your supposed to tweak volume... im not exactly sure what that means, what is it and how do I do it to get the most out of the workouts?

*edit* im trying to get all this fat burned off and some muscle mass/definition. I dont know if that would make a diffrence in the weight i lifted or how often. id like to mabye loose 15 lbs by the middle of next month.
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Tweaking volume basically means varying your rep scheme. Heavy weights, lower reps, then lighter weights, higher reps. Full body workouts are demanding, so be sure your diet is in check. I personally do a split, so others on this forum that do full body workouts can probably offer you better insight. Good luck with your goals
 
how should I vary them? Every other workout do heavier weight with lower reps and alternate it with lighter weight and more reps? Will this still build up muscle and definition? Or should I do more weight/less reps one week and more reps/less weight the next week?

not trying to be an idiot, i want to get the perfect routine down.
 
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