Routine Question

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My question is this: would a beginner benifit more from a traditional
chest/tri, back/bi, shoulders & legs split? Is growth more evident in a
routine like this or does a upper body lower body split give the same
results.

If you have trained both ways, I would like your opinion on this.

You say growth, so I gather your focus is on hypertrophy. Google HST and
Haycock. IIRC full body workouts are a cornerstone.

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Hi all,

I've recently started training with a more experienced partner.

He has over 8 years of training under his belt.

We have been using a two on, one or two off split.

We do upper body and lower body workouts, one exercise per body part.

My question is this: would a beginner benifit more from a traditional
chest/tri, back/bi, shoulders & legs split? Is growth more evident in a
routine like this or does a upper body lower body split give the same
results.

If you have trained both ways, I would like your opinion on this.

thanks.

If you're new you'll gain on just about anything that's not retarded and
there's nothing wrong with that split. If you were just pleasing yourself I
might argue for whole-body workouts, but I don't think HST makes sense until
you've been lifting a while (mebbe 6 months or so).

But you're working with a partner. Probably better to stick with him and his
routine.

Hugh

--
Exercise is a dirty word. Whenever I hear it, I wash my mouth out with
chocolate. ("Ladi"😉

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Quoted message said:

Hi all,

I've recently started training with a more experienced partner.

He has over 8 years of training under his belt.

We have been using a two on, one or two off split.

We do upper body and lower body workouts, one exercise per body part.

My question is this: would a beginner benifit more from a traditional
chest/tri, back/bi, shoulders & legs split? Is growth more evident in a
routine like this or does a upper body lower body split give the same
results.

If you have trained both ways, I would like your opinion on this.

thanks.

If you're new you'll gain on just about anything that's not retarded and
there's nothing wrong with that split. If you were just pleasing yourself I
might argue for whole-body workouts, but I don't think HST makes sense until
you've been lifting a while (mebbe 6 months or so).

But you're working with a partner. Probably better to stick with him and his
routine.

Hugh

--
Exercise is a dirty word. Whenever I hear it, I wash my mouth out with
chocolate. ("Ladi"😉

C,
I would say that you will do better training with a partner. There
are workouts that I would probably skip if I didn't have a partner
because I felt tired or lazy, on most of these I go because me and my
training partner have an appointment. When I get to the gym I usually
feel fine after my warmup. I also seem to usually work harder at the
workout since I don't want to "wimp out" or skip any sets.
I have done full body and split routines (including the split you
mention) in the past. My personal split that I like is leg/back and
chest/tricep. Leg/back makes sense to me since I like to do deadlifts
and it uses the legs and the back and ....nearly everything. The squat
also works my back to some extent while it is getting my legs (I do
deep squats). I think that the upper body, lower body split that you
mention is a fine split, but I personally wouldn't do it anymore since
I think deadlifts are such a great exercise. In my opinion deadlifts
wouldn't naturally fit as a lower or upper body exercise, they're too
compound a lift.
A beginner could benefit from the split you mention, its a perfectly
acceptable split.

Good luck,
James