Q: MIke im the guy from 1234, can you help design me a workout that is just right? not as near to over training as you said it was. i can go to the gym 4-5 days a week and im currently on a bulking diet you and me worked out. On 1234 i forgot to tel you about shoulders. usually i do them on mondays and thursdays, and switch the back days aoruond with tues and fri. anyways, about this new workout plan, please help me. Im getting my rotator cuff healed, and my doctor said i can just bench the bar, for like 20-25 reps. for shoulders i just do light weight shrugs right now and maybe presses with the bar. anyways can you help me

A: Well, like I said, there's nothing necessarily wrong with your existing program if you only go to failure on every fourth set. You can scale it down to 3 sets per exercise instead of 4 if you're worried about doing too much. Alternatively you can take up one of my sample programs from the Articles page: here's the 4-day program -- take out the shoulder exercises you can't do now. And be extra-careful when you go to failure on all exercises -- 'cheating' on form in even back and bicep exercises can hurt your shoulder, so always maintain perfect form, even at the expense of the last rep or two on to-failure sets.