Link Recommendation:

I link to a number of blogs here. But I know not everyone reading this will read everything posted on those blogs. So I'd like to highlight a good one.

Boris at SquatRx (linked down further on this page) just posted a nice piece about exercise order.

If you design your own workouts or want to know why the published ones generally follow a similar progression, check his post. He's got a short but sweet summary of the "rules" of exercise order and the impact of changing them around.