The routine that my personal trainer designed for me to start- thoughts?

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SuperFob

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Crunches- 1 set
Bench Press- 2 sets
Seated Flies- 2 sets
Shoulder Press- 2 sets
Tricep Pulldowns (on lat pulldown bar, with a my hands closer together)- 2 sets
Lat pulldowns- 2 sets
Incline Bench Press- 2 sets
Dumbbell Curls- 2 sets
Crunches- Another set
Leg Extensions- 2 sets
Leg Curls- 2 sets
Leg Press- 2 sets
 
There's a lot of isolation exercises in there.

What's your goal?
 
A personal trainer gave you that???

You need to get them as far away from you as possable.

here is a run down on the amount of sets you'll be doing with each muscle group...

Chest - 6
Shoulders - 4 (but nothing for rear delts)
Traps - 0
Lats - 2
Triceps - 8
Biceps - 4
abs - 2
Sides - 0
Lower back - 0

Not counting legs as leg machines shouldnt be used in the 1st place.

As you can see its wildly uneven. Print this out and show it to your "personal trainer". Then ask to see his qualifications, as I suspect he has none.
 
He coaches football at my school, pretty cool guy. He's been weightlifting for years and trains most of the kids at school (and there's some nicely chiseled guys walking around our halls, not to mention strong). I'd say he's pretty qualified.

Though, I guess that I could replace the incline bench with seated rows.
 
SuperFob said:
He coaches football at my school, pretty cool guy. He's been weightlifting for years and trains most of the kids at school (and there's some nicely chiseled guys walking around our halls, not to mention strong). I'd say he's pretty qualified.

Though, I guess that I could replace the incline bench with seated rows.
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Pretty lame routine....adn thats coming from a real trainer. Ditch his advise. Who cares if he coaches football???? Does that mean he knows how to help yu reach your goals (and not his?)
 
Alright, I've revised this-

A days-
Set of Crunches
Seated Flies
Lat Pulldowns
Shoulder Press
Some kind of lower back extension that I don't know the name of
Tricep Extensions
Another Set of Crunches
Leg Press
Leg Extensions
Calf Raises

B days-
Same as A days except that I do bench press instead of flies, bicep curls instead of tricep extensions and leg curls instead of leg extensions,

I'm leaving my traps alone (want to go for more square shoulders), but I otherwise think that I have a pretty complete routine- if I don't then please point it out politely:p
 
every school football coach i've ran into knows **** about weight lifting,

well they think you lift you grow no matter what atleast thats how mine is. hes a dumbass, thats why i will not weight lift with the weight lifting team, they'll slow me down, i go to the competitions and make state and I NEVER lift with them.. lol
 
SuperFob said:
A Set of Crunches
Seated Flies
Some kind of lower back extension that I don't know the name of
Tricep Extensions
Another Set of Crunches
Leg Press
Leg Extensions

B days-
Same as A days except that I do bench press instead of flies, bicep curls instead of tricep extensions and leg curls instead of leg extensions,

I'm leaving my traps alone (want to go for more square shoulders), but I otherwise think that I have a pretty complete routine- if I don't then please point it out politely:p
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From this new post, I'd recommend you pick any one of a number of fine books put out by Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove, Ian King, Eric Cressey, Mike Mejia and/or John Berardi. You'll be much better off.
 
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ALOHA & Howzit!

after looking at the workout routine provided to you I'm sure that there were suggestions on how much weight resistance for each set progressive resistance exercise and how many repetitions per set?
Example: bench press - 1) 100/12 2) 120/8-12
seated chest flys (?) - 1) 25/10 2) 20/12-15
shoulder press (?) - 1) 20/6-8 2) 20/8-12
tricep pulldowns - 1) 30/10 2) 30/12-15
lat pulldowns - 1) 70/12 2) 80/8-12
incline bench press (?) - 1) 85/8 2) 85/10-12
db curls - 1) 20/6-8 2) 15/10-12
leg curls - 1) 50/12 2) 40/15-20
leg press - 1) 100/12 2) 120/8-12
the (?) means not sure what type of equipment like free weights or selected weight machines.

The format given to you I assume is more a beginners workout.
The selection is not bad but make sure your coach/trainer makes the time to work with you so can understand not only how to do the exercises but why you are doing them.
There can be added sets once you can perform the exercises comfortably and may want to redesign or restructure the exercises later.
This is called the variables of progressive resistance exercise.
There is the selection of exercises. The order of exercises. The number of sets, weight resistance, reps and so on that you can start reading on from the list of books provided from those who replied to your question.
For now, educate yourself with your coach/trainer and ask a lot of questions.
Okay, thats it for now!
aloha and good health to you!
mikey q.
 
SuperFob said:
Crunches- 1 set
Bench Press- 2 sets
Seated Flies- 2 sets
Shoulder Press- 2 sets
Tricep Pulldowns (on lat pulldown bar, with a my hands closer together)- 2 sets
Lat pulldowns- 2 sets
Incline Bench Press- 2 sets
Dumbbell Curls- 2 sets
Crunches- Another set
Leg Extensions- 2 sets
Leg Curls- 2 sets
Leg Press- 2 sets
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Total crap.

Thoughts to myself. Who in the hell employs these guys?
 
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