[Vickie]

Well Des, you have recieved excellent feedback. Matt is right on . . . split things up to give the muscles plenty of time to rest and seven days a week is a recipe for disaster, let's give your military advisor credit also. Remember that I suggested that you should never work the same muscles two days in a row. While I really think push ups are a great routine blaster, adding endurance and iso-genetic training within your isotonic (weight resistence) training, every day is just too much. Also your body just needs days to rest and recover on and off the golf course. Bagger is right also, even though I don't put as much credence to aging as most people rest is critical to your success both in terms of increased strength and physical endurance.

I must have missed a previous reference to an 'abductor'. Typically, in the gym, this is a machine that you sit in and open your legs to work the outer (lateral) aspects of your legs. Typically there are two machines side by side and one you squeeze your legs in (adductor) and the other you open your legs against the resistence(abductor). I personally would suggest you do compound leg exercises and leave these to, well the girls. Unless you are recovering from a very specific injury or you have all the time in the world, these muscles are incorporated in compound use of the hips and legs and only use up your time. I have other opinions about these machines but will save them for a more casual conversation. Your Abs can be worked with machines in the gym or just effectively at home with traditional exercises and with medicine balls that have been mentioned on other threads.

I absolutely do believe you need to find time for two isolation leg exercises primarily because they are so important to the knee joint, leg extension and leg curl. You should just jump from one to another, three sets each, without rest keeping the weight light enough to get 15 repetitions but with perfect form and with a challenge. I also notice that you are missing bicep work, critical to the function of the lats and ability to move your arms through the full range of motion with healthy elbows.
Forward raises and rear deltoids are more of the shoulder joint muscles and are necessary to keep the rotator cuff muscles from over working to stabilize the funtions of your swing. These could and maybe should be performed with dumbgbells. There is a rear deltoid exercise that can best be accomplished on a pec dec if the machine is set up to allow it.

Again, if you have a trainer that could just walk thru some of these suggestions it will help you immensely. Sounds like you are doing very well on your own but as you might have seen in Matts response, balance is everything. If you work the muscles of the front of your joint, you want to work the muscles on the other side (an over simplification to the extreme) equally.

I am so glad you have found a rythm in your training. We are all (after 25 years, by the way) always looking to create the balance. Congrats for staying in the challenge. I am so glad you posted your progress. Let's keep it going.

Viokie