Just need some advice. As you can tell I hit the gym recently and trying my best to make it work hence so many threads and questions, would like to thank you guys for providing whatever advice you can, everything is helpful and helps me better understand the world of gym.
With that being said I got 2 questions.
1. Workout routine - I am 5 days a week in a gym doing cardio and weights. Cardio is my main thing since my target number 1 is to lose weight so I do cardio everyday after weight training. Now this is my current schedule: Monday (biceps + triceps), Tuesday (shoulders, forearms), Wendesday (chest, traps), Thursday (biceps + triceps), Friday (shoulders, forearms), Sat+Sun rest, then Monday (chest, traps) and so on.
As you can see I didnt included legs and back. Is it such a big deal? The reason im asking is becuase im quite big already in those areas of my body, main thing is weight loss but I want to get into weights also for experience and diversifying training a bit. Also I am not planning to strip bare chested for the beach or anything like that any time soon either. What you think of my training schedule, am I pairing exercises correctly? For example I do shoulders + forearms on one day but perhaps doing shoulders and traps on same day be better?
2. Different exercises - Each day I am trying different exercises for different muscle groups until I see which do feel better. Some exercises I found more comfortable than others but make no mistake I am still experiencing burn and pain. Today for example I tried shoulder exercises, standing barbell overhead press, cable side laterals and seat dumbell laterals. The barbel and cable side feels great and gives serious kick. The seat dumbell laterals however I found frying my shoulders too quickly, I can barely finish first set. Another example is bench press, I hated it as a kid and I do hate them now.
I do about 3 exercises for each muscle with 3 sets x 12 reps. So in this case what you think would be better? Do 2 exercises with 5 sets each or look for another exercise? Does it matter if you just keep doing the same exercise but more sets to compensate?
