Too many exercises per muscle group?

[peckhamprince]

Hello all,

This is my first post,so excuse me if I get things wrong lol.

Just a quickie on how many exercises I should do per muscle group?
At the moment I do about 5 different exercises for each group of muscle, I.e Shoulders:

Seated Military Press:
x12 x10 x8
Standing Dumbell Military Press:
x12 x10 x8
Front Shoulder Raise:
x10 x10
Side Dumbell Raise:
x12, x10, x8
Dips:
x10 x10
Bent Over Dumbell Raise:
x12 x10 x8
Barbell raise (to neck, close grip)
x12 x10 x8


Is this too much? I fit it into about an hour! build up the weight, keep a reference to the previous weeks lifts and any adjustments to progression.
Been doing weights for about a year now.. but stopped for 6 months. Now I've been Training for the last 2 months, and determind to carry this on indefinately.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[HammerTech]

My shoulders started hurting reading this. 5 sets of shoulder work on its own day, combined with whatever you're doing for chest, is going to wear your shoulders out in my opinion.

I did a variation of "body part" training over the summer...just for something different, and I found it wasn't the most effective way to do things. I was doing:
Mon - Chest (flat bench, incline bench, maybe cable x-overs or pec deck)
Tues - Back
Wed - off
Thurs - Shoulders (Seated or standing press and one other exercise such as upright rows or raises) and arms
Fri - Legs

For a while, it felt great and was a nice change of pace from what I had been doing...but eventually it started to take its toll and I went back to training movements instead. You may want to consider that, and your shoulders will thank you.

[Meta]

I used to train shoulders on it's own... but even then I would only do 3-4 exercises

now I do push/pull/leg

I don't even do direct shoulder work all the time... if I do it's 1 or 2 exercises

[hi i'm lucky]

i dont even do 5 different exercises for chest or back. agree with 2-3 for shoulders and other smaller muscles (i.e. biceps/triceps).

[TheHorseman]

I'm not so much into how many sets/reps/exercises etc you do as much as I am into hammering the intensity. I'd rather do 6-10 sets of one exercise than 2-3 of 3 exercises.

But I also don't restrict myself to a rep count, set count or whatever. No imposed ceilings put on my regimen...

[peckhamprince]

Ok Thanks peoples! Must say it took alot out of me! trying too hard to hit all major muscles, will reviseandwork on maybe one or two compound and1 Isolation, and change it up.
Thanks again