Do you have a set routine?

[Admin]

Do you have a set routine or do you wing it?

 

[dave]

Set.

 

[Admin]

only asking , as today at the gym was observing a few people that just seemed to be winging it , i was starting to think that i was Obsessive–compulsive by having a set routine

 

[walt]

Defiantly set, sometimes make a few changes but not a lot

 

[kaz]

Always preplanned! Otherwise I look like one of those winging it!
Preplanned and structured!

 

[Big Mick]

Routine is the only way to go, I have my workouts planned at least a week in advance, at the moment I have it planned about three weeks in advance.

 

[dave]

Without a plan you are destined to fail.

 

[trofius]

simple, I plan on doing atleast 2 compound lifts a session, everything else is bonus.

 

[Fadi]

Without a plan you are destined to fail.

And continuing from where my friend Dave has left off, I'd say make sure your plan is flexible enough for any unforeseen alteration. I've always strived to be ultra flexible in my approach to bodybuilding workouts. I say that because I see or hear of some who are so rigid in their ways that they would most certainly break whenever the wind is strong enough. I say bend with the wind and as the late Bruce Lee had beautifully put it: "be water my friend." Water takes the shapes of whatever it enters, so be water and do what is most appropriate at the time of your workout.

A plan is great and that is not something that can be argued with. However any pilot would tell you, that even though we have entered our plans of destination into our cockpit computer, there's always that back up plan just in case we have to divert to another airport. Plan a, plan b, plan...


Fadi.

 

[Lucifer]

Yeah I just wing it. I know what muscle groups I want to do when I go, and I pick how I want to do it when I get there.

 

[Admin]

Without a plan you are destined to fail.

when i was starting off in the radio industry , my trainer drilled the 6 p's into me
Piss Poor Preparation Piss Poor Performance

 

[Gunner]

Set routine. Used to just wing it and it got me no where fast

Piss Poor Preparation = Piss Poor Performance

Fixed

 

[Gingerbread]

Definitely set and I have my weight planned out.

 

[Shrek]

when i was starting off in the radio industry , my trainer drilled the 6 p's into me
Piss Poor Preparation Piss Poor Performance

Or

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance?

 

[craze]

Pretty much set, sometimes i do change if i cannot get to certain equipment if gym is flat out

 

[Goosey]

I've got workout log books going back to 1997

 

[Gunner]

Or

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance?

That's the one I was looking for. Wise words indeed

 

[jzpowahz]

Uninjured, definitely set.

Injured currently, set of what I can do + rehab stuff.

 

[callan]

set program, i like knowing what lifts i got to do on what night.

 

[tonyharrison]

For last month or so I've been winging it while i've been trying to drop bodyfat by doing more sprints (which worked)

I've just been going in knowing i will squat first, then either press or dip, then either row or pullup

I'm going to find my log book and record everything again soon tho