Help Please... Need Experts Advice

I Have been training Body Weight method for many months now and have had a good routine and am quite happy with the results. Just for info, I'm an ectomorph, quite a hard gainer, you can see pictures on my profile if you need to.
I keep reading that I don't need that much cardio and I need to eat more. I'm obsessed with staying super thin and keeping my six pack visible so I'm always afraid to eat more. But I guess I'll give it a go, try and eat a bit more for a week and see how I feel, if I recover more or whatever...

Anyhow I decided to step it up and bought myself a power tower, this to avoid misunderstandings: View attachment 5674

Today was my first workout with it, so instead of the previous workout (which was Pushups-Situp-Dips on Table Half dips), with the power tower I did Pullups (Lats, palms pointing away from you), then Dips, then Chin Ups (Close grip plams towrds you), then Pushups. I did a Set of Situps in between each exercise as I did with my standard workout too. I did 2 sets of each of the four exercises, altough the second set of each was considerably less reps han the first (Half or less).

So, here's my concern. Is it normal to feel Strange, when changing your workout completely? Changing a routine you did for months? Because, I'm not saying I don't feel good, I feel 'nice' and sore, yet still strange, different from usual post workout.

So I'd like to ask some Experts, Is it okay if I do the workout I just listed, 3 times a week? A day of rest in between, so alternate, one day work, one rest (usually do some legs or running on the rest day).

I know it's okay to workout 3 times a week, but is it okay to do this workout which Uses basically Every muscle Group? Or should I split it in 2 groups?

I know it's about how I feel, but I'd like some Professional words reasoning if it's too much or Okay to workout everything on one session each time.

Thankyou very Much in advance.
 

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*don't worry about your abs not showing if you eat more, if you eat cleanly, you'll have nothing to worry about such as on the paleo diet

[video=youtube;jcN0f8CeACQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcN0f8CeACQ[/video]

*if you keep the same program for months and months your body adapts to it and doesn't grow stronger, the body adapts to stress thats where progressive overload comes in your progressively put more and more stress on the body through harder and harder exercise and its grows stronger in response, then you back away for a deload week to heal up and regain strength, test your limits with a strength test, and then plan out your next workout cycle accordingly.

*full body workouts are exactly what you should be doing, the body is a unit and meant to be worked as a unit, upper and lower body splits are for body builders.

* your program could probably use a little work because it seems you're neglecting some planes of motion a complete body weight program would be something like:
-upward pressing
-upward pulling
-horizontal pressing
-horizontal pulling
-downward pressing
-downward pulling
-leg work
3-4 sets of 3-5 reps of 1 exercise each
-core such as l sit or straddle l sit work
-stretching to improve the core work.

p.s. crunches are terrible, practice L sits for core compression benefits that get you strong abs.

if you have any questions feel free to message me
 
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