135: The Complete Guide To Workout Splits & Which Is Best For You
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In todays episode we go over a comprehensive guide to workout splits and give you the keys to finding out which workout split is best for you.
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Considerations when finding a routine:
1. Experience
2. Goals
3. Time
4. Rest and recovery needs
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yeah. Josh and KG in the Hizze. |
| 0:06.0 | No, no, no. |
| 0:07.0 | Wow, that was awesome. |
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| 0:13.0 | We're thinking just, you know, we're doing well on Spotify, but why haven't we started a rap album? |
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| 0:22.7 | a couple uh couple uh couple white boys over here just sitting a rap white boy entertainment white boy entertainment |
| 0:27.7 | i love it anyhow we have a really fun episode today all joking aside uh today we're going to be |
| 0:33.9 | talking about finding the best workout split for you so if you don't know what a workout split is and you click on it anyways so you're like why the heck not so we're going to be talking about finding the best workout split for you. So if you don't know what a workout split is and you click on it anyways, so you're like, why the heck not? So workout split is how you will structure training your different body parts as the week progresses. So obviously when you look at training body parts, most people look at it in cycles of weeks. It's a lot easier to kind of organize it in that sense. If you really wanted to, a month would be too much. You know, daily, you'll end up training the same thing. You'll end up skipping legs. Like, I think people especially don't follow routines. Just end up doing the same thing over and over because you're going to do what you like, not what you need to do. So we've kind of broken it down to probably five of the most popular. And we're going to break what they are what they do their benefits their downfalls any controversies that may be behind them |
| 1:15.6 | and who we would recommend them for so our goal with this is for you to be able to find the best |
| 1:20.1 | workout split to help you reach your goals and kind of get rolling there so first and foremost |
| 1:26.0 | it's really important that when looking for a workout split that you look at, you know, how experience you are. Are you a beginner, intermediate, or an advanced lifter? This will really kind of contribute to what you need to do. Obviously, if me and Kyle switched to a two-day training regimen, we would probably, you know, degress, if that's a word, not progress. We'd go backwards because we're used to a certain amount of volume. We've acclimated to that. And obviously, your goal through training out is to add volume and add intensity as you progress and become more accustomed to the weights. So it's all about improving, you know, how much you're actually handling to put more muscular load, to therefore gain more muscle and improve your physique. So that's the first thing. |
| 2:01.3 | Next up is your goals. So you have to be aware, you know, what am I looking to achieve? If my goal is to become Mr. Olympia, I'm not necessarily going to do that with three full body days. I'm sure someone would advocate for that, but that's just not realistic. You've got to really look at it like that. If I want to be a power lifter, once again, I'm not going to be able to only train once a week. |
| 2:17.8 | That'd be ridiculous, you know, even to do once or twice a week, to only do that for powerlifting, it's just not something that can necessarily be achieved. Like you really need to spread things out. You need to be hitting the lifts on different days, spreading them out, doing accessory movements. So that's your second consideration. Your third consideration is your actual time. |
| 2:34.6 | Like, you know, what are you available to train? |
| 2:36.8 | What can you actually feasibly do? |
| 2:38.4 | Just because I'd like to train seven days a week for three hours doesn't mean that's something I'm going to be able to do. You know, I have other commitments in life. So that's not necessarily realistic to me. But, you know, if you're super strapped at work and you can only go twice a week, it's important to structure something around that. |
| 2:52.0 | Whereas if you have all the time in the world, hey, maybe you can super strapped at work and you can only go twice a week, it's important to structure something around that. |
| 2:52.0 | Whereas if you have all the time in the world, hey, maybe you can do a little bit more. Then last but not least is your actual threshold to, you know, kind of being able to deal with volume and how actually genetically gifted you are in terms of recovery. So a lot of people will be super good and have no problem going to the gym five of his week, |
| 3:09.8 | whereas someone can go twice a week and just feel like, of recovery. So a lot of people, you know, will be super good and have no problem going to the gym |
| 3:09.2 | five of his week, whereas someone can go twice a week and just feel like death, you know, like it's just more than they can handle, you know, maybe they're low test, low estrogen, whatever it is. So it's really important to be real with yourself and say, hey, what can I actually recover from? What volume can I do? And just because your buddy can do something doesn't mean that you can do it too, right? |
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