re: Workout gurus: A few questions

Thanks for the responses - that's exactly why I asked here. I am paying lots of attention to proper form and started him with very light weight to ensure that excessive resistance would not prevent proper form. These are all exercises that I did when I worked out, but that was a loooong time ago. Back then we didn't even bother with rest days. I merely tried to pick out a variety of exercises that would hit all the muscle groups, but when I put it on paper it certainly appeared to have a lot of redundancy. I'm going to switch him to a shorter full body workout 3x/week instead of the split, and I'll eliminate the redundant exercises.