is my program okay

[raya]

Basicly i took what was posted in the beginner workout thread, and modified it a bit
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=4195843
i basicly took all the excersises from them but didnt really like how each rep went down in weight

3 days a week i do a full body workout
week 1 2 sets on 8
week 2 2 sets of 9
week 3 2 sets of 10
then 12 week 4

i do 2 warm up sets for my bent over rows, chest press, and squats

my question is is this enough ive never did a program with only 2 sets
i do cardio on my off days and about 20 min low impact on my weight days
my overall goal is to loose fat but gain strength, i go up 5 lbs in weight for each exercise each week.

any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thank you

[rdferguson]

Wait, so you're modification is to increase both reps and weight each week, and then on the fourth week jump up 2 reps and still add weight? Also, what do you mean "each rep went down in weight"? In AP, you keep the same weight on each rep of each working set, but you lift at 90% weight on Wed and 80% weight on Fri, to ease recovery and allow you to continue progressing on the program for months and months without needing to worry about deload weeks very much.

If you want to increase the weight every week, do that, but don't try increasing reps with the weight, or you're more likely to stall. Or you could just do the program as it's written, start at 8 reps, work up to 12, then increase weight and go back to 8 reps. I don't see why this would be a problem.

[raya]

Wait, so you're modification is to increase both reps and weight each week, and then on the fourth week jump up 2 reps and still add weight? Also, what do you mean "each rep went down in weight"? In AP, you keep the same weight on each rep of each working set, but you lift at 90% weight on Wed and 80% weight on Fri, to ease recovery and allow you to continue progressing on the program for months and months without needing to worry about deload weeks very much.

If you want to increase the weight every week, do that, but don't try increasing reps with the weight, or you're more likely to stall. Or you could just do the program as it's written, start at 8 reps, work up to 12, then increase weight and go back to 8 reps. I don't see why this would be a problem.

so what you mean by 90 percent wed, is if i lift 20 i should be lifting 15 on wed, and on fridays little less then that? i just find it hard to go down from such a low weight already

i just think im SO confussed, lol