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jakeb007
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exercise per muscle group

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hi everyone hope yous can help .I train 5 days a week as follows

Monday - chest
Tuesday - back
Wednesday - legs
Thursday - triceps/shoulders
Friday -biceps/traps
The problem im having is ideally how many exercises should i do for each muscle group.The now im doing:-

Chest - chest press(machine),bench press(machine)pec deck
i do mostly machine work due to shoulder injury.

Back - lat pull downs,bent over dumbell rows,vertical traction,upper
back machine,seated cable rows.

legs - squats,leg press,leg extensions.

triceps/ - radiant pull downs,skull crusher,close grip b/press,/radiant
shoulders lat raises,seated military press,dumbell front raises,wide bar
lat raise.

biceps/ - ez bar curls,standing hammers,preacher curls,seated dumbell
traps curls,/bar shrugs,dumbell shrugs.
Am i doing too much for some muscles and not enough for others ?,i will be interested in any help i can get .Thanks
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Post by swanso5 »

machine work will probably make your shoulders worse as the stabilisers (rotator cuffs, lower traps etc) aren't required for machine work as the wt ix "fixed" and moves in a given range of motion...probablt too many machines all round in your routinbe for liking...free wts are the way to go then we can work out volume
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Post by jakeb007 »

Thanks,it was allways free weights i used till i got shoulder injury,then the machines didnt seem to put as much strain on shoulders,but ill try using them again.I would be greatful on any help you could give me on programme,ie:- exercises per muscle group. Once again thanx
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Post by swanso5 »

a good program is The Waterbury Method by Chad Waterbury...search, read and do...if we need to change anything we can
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