I can add more variety, but I was on a 5 rep program for a year and hit a really solid plateau. I figure that a totally different routine is a way past the plateau.
As for the lower back, I had a personal trainer tell me that back extensions and such were just a recipe for injury, and that due to the range of motion of our spine, doing an exercise akin to the yoga locust pose was all your lower back needs for stability.
The reason I'm doing no major chest exercises right now is because the same personal trainer said my muscles are imbalanced between my chest and my upper back, so he suggested I do no bench press until I strengthen my upper back to pull my shoulders back from being hunched forward.
I'm hitting the triceps pretty hard because I literally watched as my triceps size melted away in a matter of months, while nothing was really lost from my biceps. I'll go back to a workout that works everything once I restore this balance.
I've never thought to really work out my forearms because I thought they got a decent workout as a support muscle group for anything else my arms do. If that's inaccurate, what forearm exercises would you guys suggest? I have no real experience with targeting the forearms.
I know that the size comes in the kitchen, my gut has been telling me so by being the only thing growing as my muscles have shrunk lately.
