Doing Same Exercises but Varying Weight, Sets, Reps, Rest.

[ENP]

I come from an endurance sport back ground (road cycling) and looking to build sport specific strength and add muscle for general aesthetics. 

 

I like to keep things very simple in training and nutrition and find that sticking to a simple and uncomplicated plan works best for me.

 

I've identified 11x exercises for whole body workouts not including core work that I think will give me the best return on investment so to speak. I'll cycle these through phases throughout the year into meso/macro cycles and alternate with endurance/hypertrophy/strength/power depending on the build up to events. 

 

Is there anything inherently wrong with this approach?

 

I know the whole thing of "shocking the system" by doing new things to the body to keep it improving but feel I don't want to complicate things and would rather do 2-3 times weight sessions year round tied in with cardio/endurance training.

 

Thoughts? 

[B_Eden]

Sounds good, that's pretty much what I do. Squat, chin, bench, deadlift, for sets of 3-5x1-10 depending on the day and the week. I treat everything else as an accessory, so far it's going well, I've been doing this for most of this year and my deadlift and bench have both increased 20kg in the past 6 months.