yes, I am working out in a gym. I am not looking for bulk at all, I am actaully looking for toning and fat burning I am at 205ish right now and my goal is to get back to 165-170.
Just out of curiosity what is terrible about it?
Let's get into some discussion here, this is a great topic and I am seeing a lot of bad information around here.
First, different workouts do not lead to toning vs. bulking. Lifting weights in any fashion, you either build muscle, or you don't. It is that simple. If your weight lifting is coupled with a caloric surplus, you are most likely going to add muscle. If your weight lifting is coupled with a caloric deficit, you are NOT going to build muscle.
Toning? What exactly do you mean by that? If you are trying to lean out, which is what I am assuming you mean, getting that lean look is a function of diet and fat loss mainly.... and not resistance training.
If weight loss is your goal, which you already mentioned that it was, then you are obviously going to have to restrict calories in some fashion. Because of this, you are most likely not going to add any muscle to your body while pushing the weights around. Muscle building is a very energy intensive process. If the body is already not getting enough energy through your diet due to your caloric deficit, what makes you think that it will actually go above and beyond your basic bodily maintenance and add something that is very energy expensive?
That is not to say that resistance training is not good to do during a caloric deficit.
When calories are not sufficient, we have said weight loss. The goal is to have the weight loss comprised of mainly fat. Muscle loss is going to happen regardless, but we can minimize this by supplementing a proper resistance training regiment and tweaking the diet for the proper macronutrient quantities. Since muslce is very energy expensive tissue, when calories are low, it most likely wants to get rid of the expensive stuff. Lifting weights triggers the biochemical signals from your CNS to say, "Hey, maybe I want to hold on to this muscle if I my body is going to continue being taxed like this."
Ok, so what is wrong with the routine that you have presented?
Any steady state aerobic exercise, such as your riding, I would recommend performing after the resistance training.
You have a boat load of core dominant exercises. Why? I ask this because any properly designed resistance training regiment should be comprised most of compound exercises such as the squat, deadlift, horizontal pressing, horizontal pulling, vertical pressing, vertical pulling. It is that simple. Most of these exercises will involve the core already. If anything, a few sets of crunches per week will do.
How many sets and reps are you doing of each exercise?
How long is this routine taking you each day?
I can tell you right now that you have far too many exercises per session.
Let's continue the discussion once you reply to this.
Look forward to hearing from you!
