Same exercise or mix it up during week

[a05jwal]

goal is to tone up and lose weight, i've been told compound exercises are the best, so 3x/week I'd like to work major muscles, I am curious though should it be the same one 3x a week for example, if I am working the chest would it be okay to do Pushups on Monday and then maybe on Wednesday do dumbell flyes and friday do dumbell Press. Same question about Biceps - Monday do Seated Dumbell curl, Wed. do Concentration curl and Friday do Hammer curl?

or are you better off doing same exercise 3x/ week?

[bigiz123]

mixing it up is better than doing the same stuff over a period of time, because after a while it starts to lose its effect (aka the plateau effect), so mix it up as much as possible but keep the intensity high

[SarahPT]

You can do it different days. You can do different exercises each time. You could do the same routine for 3-4 weeks, trying to increase weights as often as you safely can. Or, you can have 3 different routines that you do each once a week, for 6 weeks or so, increasing weights when you can. There are really countless ways you can do it.

Sarah