Need advice for FBW vs Splits.

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I posted the following on the Fitness forum too, but for those who don't go over there and have some advice.. Please!


Hubs and I normally follow a routine of Upper/Lower/Cardio/Upper/Lower/Cardio
-Abdominals fall every other day regardless of which workout day they occur.
We are doing the P90X Ab routine which is a lot of core work and uses the hell out of my hip flexors as I'm also training for a 5K. (So it's hard some days to make it through that Ab routine).

Here's the problem. Some days we aren't able to make the gym due to his or my work/school schedule and when we can't do that, we are messed up and want to do FBW's or a Cardio/Lower or Cardio/Upper depending on the day.

Personally, I'm thinking I'd like to do FBW's every other day with the major exercises and possibly cardio and bi's tri's the 2nd day.

Normal Split goes like this:

Upper Body:
Lat pulldowns
Lat rows
Incline Press
Decline Press
Bench Press
Lateral raises
Military Press
Shrugs
Supination Curls
hammer curls
and overhead tricep ext or tricep press

Lower Body:
Leg Press
Leg Extension
Leg Curls
Calf Raise
Adductors
Abductors

I would do squats or deadlifts, but he's never liked deadlifts, and doesn't want to do squats because "that's how Bruce Lee was injured while filming '"Enter the Dragon'".

But using these and other exercises that maybe we haven't included, what exercises should I/we do on FBW days?


Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[Steve]

upper/lower/cardio/upper/lower/cardio/rest?

How many sets and reps per exercise. Seems like a lot to me, but that depends.

Do you and your hubby have the same goals? If not, you should be training the same way.

And your hubby doing squat for that reason is like me selling my car and buying a horse b/c I know someone who was killed in a car accident. Or, wait.... I know someone who was killed in a horse accident too.... shit!

It's about doing things safely.

 

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upper/lower/cardio/upper/lower/cardio/rest?

How many sets and reps per exercise. Seems like a lot to me, but that depends.

Do you and your hubby have the same goals? If not, you should be training the same way.

And your hubby doing squat for that reason is like me selling my car and buying a horse b/c I know someone who was killed in a car accident. Or, wait.... I know someone who was killed in a horse accident too.... shit!

It's about doing things safely.

Well, there have been days of rest in there, but those are unscheduled rests.
We do 1 set and I'm doing 8-12 reps/exercise. He's been getting full rest while I continue training for the 5K thing I'm doing too.

I think we were thinking that because there are 2 days between Upper and 2 days between Lower and then 2 days between cardio that it was "resting" hmm.

I am fine not doing squats right away, because it's been so long since I've done them at the gym, so I'm trying to build up my strength with the Leg press and stuff first.

He's always been one to work upper body more than lower body anyway, but he's getting better. It's just hard because I like Lower more than upper and he likes upper more than lower, so we normally miss out on Lower body exercises.

 

[Steve]

What's the theory behind this one set per exercise thing?

 

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What's the theory behind this one set per exercise thing?

Uh, I dunno. That's just what we've been doing. But also I think it's following either Ellington Darden or Arthur Jones suggestion from a book.

 

[Steve]

I'd go with multiple sets per exercise and reduce the number of exercises.... not that that's what you're asking.