You need to hit your major muscle groups the hardest. Legs (priority), Chest, and Back. Your shoulders will get fairly worked with chest, as will triceps, and your biceps will get worked with back. A solid leg workout will also work your core (which is fundamental for true strength) and various other muscles. It would be nice if you had more days to work out, but since you don't, I wouldn't focus on them. First set of each muscle group do around 16-20 reps. After that, hit it hard and heavy with no more than 5-8 reps. 4 would be ideal...but only if you're hitting muscle failure in the 4th rep. Focus on the big exercises:
Legs - Squats/Deadlifts/Weighted Lunges
Chest - Incline Press/Flat Press/Decline
Back - Pull-ups/Lat Pull-Downs/Rows/Rear Delt
Take a minute or two between each set to regain your ATP (Google it...I don't have time to explain it)
Most importantly, you can lift all you want, but if you're not taking enough protein (the building block of muscle) you won't have serious gains. Shoot for 1-1.5 grams per pound of body weight.
Stop the cardio! Cardio makes you fat. High intensity intervals is what you need. It's like strength cardio.
Hope that helps. I'm heading to the gym now. Back Day.
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Wooooooooooooooo Stop the cardio??? Don't say that. Cardio is fine as long as you don't binge eat after.
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High intensity burst cardio is way better.
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Edited by CoherentBadger: 1/24/2015 3:20:53 PMTrue. But it comes down to personal preference. I'd much rather run at 7:20 pace for an hour than do anaerobic work. If I did anaerobic work, I'd most likely slack and not get many reps in. Yes, I may have to run further to burn more calories, but I actually enjoy it. Also I wouldn't say way better. Endurance athletes have some of the highest VO2max
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It is personal preference...but this guy is trying to put on big muscle. Endurance cardio is counter-productive to that. Do what you want...I'm all for it. If you love running, more power to you. http://www.t-nation.com/training/regular-cardio-will-make-you-fat
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I guess it depends on what op is trying to accomplish. I took it as he wants to get lean because he said he's against bulking.
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Yeah. You could be right. Sa'll good.