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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

What's The BEST Training Split? (PPL, Upper/Lower, or Full Body?)

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Most people spend way too much time trying to find the perfect workout split, but the name of your split isn’t what builds muscle. The real progress comes from the inputs you put in each week. In this episode, Marianna and Tony break down how to choose the right training split for you based on your goals, schedule, and recovery. You’ll learn how to line up your volume, frequency, and intensity so your training actually moves you forward instead of keeping you stuck. Like every episode of Fitness Stuff, it’s all based on research and facts, simplified for everyone.



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Timestamps:

(3:15) What is a Split

(8:49) The 4 Things That Matter When Choosing a Split

(22:31) Bro (Body Part) Split

(29:04) Push–Pull–Legs Split

(36:41) Upper/Lower Split

(39:02) Full Body Split

(40:20) Hybrid Splits

Transcript

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0:00.0

Upper, lower, push, pull, legs, full body.

0:03.1

The name of your split doesn't build muscle.

0:05.8

The inputs do, which is why today we're breaking down exactly what goes into picking the right training split for you.

0:11.9

Based on all the important things that go into it.

0:14.0

So you can hit the intended volume, frequency, and everything else for your specific goals.

0:19.1

How many days you're in the gym and every other little piece

0:21.7

that matters. And speaking of training splits, if you're not tracking your workouts in a spreadsheet,

0:27.4

in a workout app, or even just the notes app on your phone, you have to realize how much

0:31.8

progress you are leaving on the table. Take a second and think. If you haven't been tracking

0:37.1

and haven't noticed much change

0:38.9

in your body or in your strength in the last few months at all, I can almost guarantee that that

0:43.5

is why, which is why one of the biggest perks of signing up for FS premium or just the premium

0:49.0

version of this podcast that's just five bucks a month is that you get access to all 10 of our

0:53.9

12 week training programs that are programmed out into Google month is that you get access to all 10 of our 12 week training programs

0:55.3

that are programmed out into Google Sheets so you can track and guarantee that you are making

1:00.2

progress. I would almost go as far to say that this is the number one or number two reasons.

1:04.9

People aren't making progress when it comes to the gym side of things. You also get other sick

1:09.0

perks like weekly bonus AMA episodes every Friday

1:11.6

and so much more in premium. Again, it's just five bucks a month and it takes less than 60 seconds

1:16.1

to sign up for if you want to try it out. We'll leave the links in the show note.

1:20.8

We'll leave the link to sign up in the show notes down below this episode.

1:24.9

And if you haven't already and have a few seconds to do so, you can go ahead

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