Currently I go to the gym and the trainers there have been designing my workouts. I'd like to get more variety and options in my workouts as well as understand them for my own knowledge a bit better.
So for instance on my tricep/bicep day I have perhaps 4-5 different exercises for each muscle group. As I understand it, the different exercises use different muscles. For instance on triceps, I do weighted dips, tricep push-downs (sit in a seat and push down on the handles), pushdowns where I am standing and I pull a cable down in front of me, and overhead raises.
On Biceps I do hammer curls, preacher curls (with the angled grips), straight bar curls and reverse curls where I hold an angled bar but have my hands down and the backs up my hand facing up.
Supposedly this variety of exercises is supposed to work different muscles.
I'd like a book or website that will give me guidelines on how to design my own workout so I can be sure I am not missing any important muscles and not overtraining any one muscle.
Does my question make sense and can you suggest such a book? I have been to the EXRX website and find it very useful, but it is not organized in a convenient format for my purposes.
Thanks,
Nick Viejo.