What order would you do this leg/back day?

[BadGaskets350]

Here's one of my leg/back day workouts. I do 5-10 minutes on a stair climber and 30-40 light reps cable machines for warmup, so none of these below are warmup sets.

The problem is I sometimes find myself utterly wrecked too early in the workout, sometimes not. I'm wondering if I should restructure it. Putting squats early in the exercise seems to be a bad idea on a 43 year old body that has only been lifting for about 5 months.


All my other leg-days are similar, just different variations, maybe with added rack pulls or leg extensions.

Squat 4x5
Dumbell shrugs 4 x 10
Seated Row 4x10
Lat Pull down 4x10
Preacher curl barbell 3x12
calf raise. 3x15
seated leg curl 4x12
Deadlift 3x5

[TolerantLactose]

What are your goals and priorities?

[air2fakie]

I like doing 3x5 DLs as a finisher after a 26-set workout too.

[BadGaskets350]

What are your goals and priorities?

Strength, with hypertrophy as secondary. Not into any powerlifting competition. I've worked manual labor most of my life so I'm not terribly out of shape, but at 43 I need to err on the side of safety rather than sheer overconfidence and ego lifting.

[BadGaskets350]

I like doing 3x5 DLs as a finisher after a 26-set workout too.

Lol, well that list isn't necessarily the actual order I do them in. That's kinda the point of the whole post. What order would you approach it?

[air2fakie]

Lol, well that list isn't necessarily the actual order I do them in. That's kinda the point of the whole post. What order would you approach it?

Hard to say since I doubt I'd do whatever split you're doing overall, but I could work with something like this:

Deadlift 3x5
Seated Row 3x10
Lat Pull down 3x10
seated leg curl 3x12
Preacher curl barbell 3x12
Dumbell shrugs 2 x 10
calf raise. 2x15

Do this another day:
Squat 3x5

[Rsurf72]

You say your burnt out before your workout finishes, well for only working out for 5 months that is ALOT of volume.

Might want to look into splitting it in half for a few weeks

I'm 28 and can't workout like that, I've been working out for a few months, when I was 21 I worked out alot, after ayear my routine had volume like yours, took some years off now my volume is alot lower, but I have added more than I was able to begin with months ago

[BenMcLeodNZ]

Squat 2x8
Seated leg curl 1x12
calf raise. 2x15

Seated Row 1x10
Lat Pull down 1x10
BARBELL shrugs 2 x 10 (one in front, one behind)
Preacher curl barbell 2x8 (EZ bar preferred, trust me)

Deadlift 1x10