Question Regarding Periodization + Upper Body

[quote]The Rattler wrote:

[quote]Chris87 wrote:
That workout sucks.

Read this entire thread:

X2. I have no idea how you can do all of that in one session.[/quote]

Cause he must be using warm up weights, there’s no way you can do all that whilst actually using weights that would clacify as proper work sets!

Op - way too many exercises, and not enough sets of the exercises you should be focussing on. Pick 4-5 exercises and do 3-5 work sets of each, that would equal a total of roughly 20-25 actual work sets. If you’re actally challenging yourself on every work set then this should be more than enough. Remember this doesn’t include your warm up. For upper body go with 1 horizontal pushing movements and one vertical, same for pulling but i’d add an olympic variation, power cleans or snatces ideally. For legs I favour 1 bilateral and 1 unilateral movement each for quads and hammies. Calves I don’t train cause they simply wont Grow! So i’ll leave that to you.

That would be my advice, hope this helps. And if you’re questioning why, just read some of dan john’s stuff, a lot of time keeping it simple is the best policy and will lead to the best results, once you’ve stopped progressing with the basics alone you can look to get a bit more elaborate but for the most part its not necessary.