Training split
A training split is how the week's work is distributed across the available days. The three most used are full body, upper/lower, and push/pull/legs. The choice is decided by how many days the client can train: with two or three days full body wins, and finer splits need four days or more for each muscle to reach its frequency.
A training split is how the week's work is distributed across the available days. The three most used are full body, upper/lower, and push/pull/legs. The choice is decided by how many days the client can train: with two or three days full body wins, and finer splits need four days or more for each muscle to reach its frequency.
Also written as: workout split · upper lower · push pull legs
In practice
The right question is not which split is better but how many days the client genuinely sustains. A six-day push/pull/legs beats a three-day full body only if the client does all six.
The common mistake
Copying the split of someone with a different calendar. A five-day plan executed three times a week leaves whole muscles untouched for ten days, which is worse than the full body the client would actually have done.
