Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Realized I’ve been doing push/pull/legs workout splits for years (as opposed to upper body / lower body, etc)

It’s nice because you easily hit every muscle but have to workout a full 6 times / week to hit each muscle group twice … kind of a lot and missing here and there unbalances you

What are other good ones?

Fitness industry is like "bro splits suck!. Why do Chest/Tris, Back/bis, Legs, when you can do push (chest/tris?), pull (back/bis?), and legs!"

I dunno, they're all basically the same to me, with very subtle differences. they all have the same exercises and same *general* structure. I was upper/lower guy for over a decade but now I'm on team bro-split. It just feels so much better to me, no more achy joints, workout focus, etc

I also enjoyed Arnold split (especially if you want arm focus for a few cycles), ppl is nice if you want to be in the gym a lot, upper lower is basic but upper days can be kind of brutal.

I like Steve Shaw's take on ULs, the Upper/Posterior (take back work from upper and put it on your "posterior" days with legs/deads. 

 Really doesn't matter in the long run.

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Good summary on the various options - that was kinda my read as well especially for upper / lower body... for those upper body days it sounds like you have to move a lot of weight if you want to cover everything

Might try a hybrid 5 day upper/lower where one of the upper body days is broken up across 2 days