| Well, first, I think you're trying to start a new "regimen" ("a regular course of action and especially of strenuous training"), not a "regiment" ("a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions")...
I think it might be a little heavy on physical development without enough time devoted to musical development. Instead of doing a lot of physical exercise, start with something to warm up your muscles, then work on the music.
You say "scales", but there's nothing here to say what you mean. If all you're doing is playing scales over two octaves or something like that, it's pretty pointless work. Instead, try this (and it will incorporate learning all the notes on the fingerboard too).
Pick a major scale, and figure out the notes on paper without your bass in your hands. Make sure you know the correct enharmonics (i.e, you know why E has a G# and not an Ab). Then pick up the bass and play all the roots in every location on the bass. Then play all the seconds, etc.
THEN play the scale, starting at the lowest note available on your bass to the highest one available on your bass, not necessarily starting on the root. But, as you play them SING the note name BEFORE you hit the note, and name the scale degree. For example, using a standard tuned 4-string bass for the key of G. You'll be playing E F# G A B C D E F#, etc. You'll sing the low E (as close as you can sing it- the idea is to fix the sound in your head before you play it), name it as "E, the sixth of G Major", then F#, etc. Do this ascending and descending.
Then go through some chord progressions. Write out the progression, figure out the notes in each chord, then play them in order. Start with quarter notes, moving to the next available note of each chord as you go up and down the neck. For example, if you're using one measure each of Emin7 Amin7 D7 G, then you'd play (again using the standard 4-string bass), E G B D (Emin7 starting at the low E), E G A C (the Amin7 starting on its 5 because that's the next note available after the D of the previous chord), then D F# A C (the D7 chord), then E G B C, etc. until you run out of neck, then descend.
Neither of these ways of practicing are fast at all, but you'll learn a LOT more about how music works, where notes are on the fingerboard, and develop your ear a lot faster than working on speed drills. To play fast is just being able to play smoothly at low tempos then increasing the tempo.
John
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