Too many sets? Exercise grouping, etc.

[jcwang]

I am just coming off of Scivation's Triphase Program which brought me up from 160 to ~175 and I have one week off. I was putting together a program for the next few months and I was looking for some advice in grouping workouts/what days of the week for each workout. What I have right now is:

Biceps/Triceps

Standing barbell curls - 3 Sets/10 Reps
Incline dumbbell curls - 3 Sets/8 reps
Preacher-curls - 3 Sets/8-10 Reps
Concentration curls - 2 Sets/8-10 Reps
Barbell-curl 21s - 2 Sets/21 Reps
Close-grip bench - 3 sets/8-10 Reps
Close-grip pushdown - 3 sets/12-15 Reps
Dips- 3 sets/8-10 Reps
Skullcrushers - 3 sets/8-10 Reps
Single arm reverse-grip pushdown - 3 sets/12-15 Reps

Chest

Flat Barbell Press: 4 sets x 12-8 reps
Incline Dumbbell Press: 4 sets x 12-6 reps
Incline Dumbbell Flyes: 3 sets x 12-8 reps
Dumbbell Pullovers: 3 sets x 12-10 reps
Cable Crossovers: 4 sets x 15-12 reps

Shoulders

Behind-the-neck military presses ? 12, 10, 8, 6 Reps
Seated dumbbell presses ? 3 Sets of 8 to 10 Reps
Side dumbbell laterals ? 3 supersets of 10 to 12 Reps
Superset with ? Front dumbbell raises
Lying rear delt dumbbell raise ? 3 sets of 8 to 10 Reps
Rear cable laterals ? 3 sets of 8 to 10 Reps

Back/Traps
Exercise Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4
Barbell Bent-Over Row 20 15 10 6 drop set 8
Close Grip Pulldown 20 12 10 8 drop set 8
Seated Cable Row 15 10 8 8
Wide Grip Pullups 20 12 10 8
Deadlift Supersetted with Dumbell Shrug 15 / 15 12 / 15 6 / 15 6 / 15


Legs

Squats:
2-3 warm-up sets
2 heavy sets of 5-8 reps or until failure

Leg Presses:
3 sets of 20 reps
The 3rd set is a drop set of 20 x 20 x 20 reps

Walking Lunges:
3 sets of walking lunges for 100 yards

Leg Extensions Superseted With Sissy Squats
3 sets of 30 reps

Lying Leg Curls
1-2 warm-up sets
3 working sets of 12-15 reps

A few of the days especially biceps/triceps might have too many sets and a few of the isolated days include a lot of sets if I wanted to combine, say chest and shoulders. Any advice for unneeded exercises I should take out or crucial ones I haven't included?
Also, is there a specific day of the week I need to be performing each of these workouts to ensure minimal muscle fatigue from previous workouts? (e.g I know doing triceps after a chest day won't be as effective as doing something like chest on monday, triceps on friday, etc.)


I'm still in a bulking phase till ~185 if it helps any.

Thanks for any help

[matjusm]

Definitely toooooo many exercises and sets.

3 chest exercises for a total of 9-12 sets should be enough. Two presses (one with db, other with bb) and a fly should be enough.
Your shoulder workout is insane. I'd say do a press, lateral raises and something for the rear delts. Thats three exercises in total which hit all three parts of the delts.
18 sets of pulls/rows also seems quite excessive. Do 2-3 rowing/pulling exercises in total for a total of say 10-12 sets. Don't do the same ones every time, switch them around from workout to workout.
Leg workout seems more or less ok.

But your arm day is just insane. I hope you know that arms are small muscle groups that already see plenty of action in pulling and pressing exercises. 2-3 exercises should be quite enough for tris and bis. I think anything over 9 sets is too much.

As for the grouping, well then there are lots of options here. Definitely make sure that you don't do a chest, shoulder or back day right before or right after your arm day. Thats if you decide to have a separate arm day at all.

You could go for the classic push, pull and legs split.
Another option is this:
Day 1: Chest and biceps
Day 2: Legs
Day 3: Rest
Day 4: Back
Day 5: Shoulders, traps, triceps
Day 6-7: Rest

But thats just my opinion, don't take it as the ultimate truth.