Your Training Split

When you look through the workout library you will notice that there are different kinds of workouts.

Some are full body, some are focused on just the upper or lower body, and there are some that are focused solely on certain areas of the body like glutes, arms, or abs.

When starting out I would recommend aiming for 3 full body sessions a week.

By doing full body workouts you are working out all of your body proportionately, and you decrease the probability that you are going to be so stiff the next day that you can’t move.

As you get more experienced, you become more able to train more frequently because your body adapts and can cope with the increase in volume and recover better.

So at this point if you are going to train more than 3 days a week you may not want to train full body every single time. There is nothing wrong with doing so, but you may just prefer to mix it up a bit.

So you might split your workouts up over the week differently. How you do this is your training split.

The splits I would recommend are

For beginners 3 full body workouts

As you become more experienced you might choose to do

One upper body workout
One lower body workout
One full body workout

If you want to train more frequently you might choose to do
two upper body workouts
two lower body workouts in a week

or one upper, one lower, two full body

You can split it up however you like, in whichever way you enjoy most!

Now there are always certain areas that people want to focus on more than others when training and developing their bodies.

Which is why there are workouts written to focus more on specific body parts.

However it is important to recognise that there are no exercises that burn fat from specific areas – doing ab workout after ab workout will not give you less body fat around your stomach.

When you are losing body fat it will come off where it comes off – sadly that is just how it is.

However what you can do is focus on building muscle in certain areas which will help you create the shape you might want.

Whether that be trying to get more defined shoulders or arms, or a bigger bum, you can target these areas with these more specific workouts.

A word of warning though, these workouts do contain more volume for those body parts so expect a bit more muscle soreness.

When you are choosing how to plan out your workouts over the week, it is smart to cycle them – so if you do a lower body workout, your legs are going to be a bit stiff the next day, so it would be best if the next workout you choose to do is an upper body workout.

You can still train other areas of your body to their full potential, whilst others recover!

In summary – it is important to ensure that you are training all areas of your body. How you choose to do so, is really up to you and your personal preference! You have access to all of these workouts for a reason.

Play around with it and find out what you enjoy doing the most.