Push, Legs, Pull & Rest Split. Order?

883xlsportster
883xlsportster Posts: 221 Member
edited February 2016 in Fitness and Exercise
Wondering what others think of the order for this routine. I used this 25 years ago with results and now again for the past 3 months. Knowing we all go with what works for each individual.
I was surfing youtube vids and see a lot of this split in the order of push, pull, legs and pull, push & legs. I'm under the impression that a leg day between push and pull would be better for recovery as it relates to using secondary muscle from pull days for push days etc.
Thoughts?
Thanks :-)

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  • piperdown44
    piperdown44 Posts: 958 Member
    I run this a couple times a year between 531 cycles, and will be starting back up on it next week.
    My order is pull, push, legs because I have deads on pull day and that gives me a day before I hit legs.

    I've had good recovery/progress running it this way.
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    Are you running that split twice a week? If you are taking a rest day between each split you should be fine. But even if you are doing the 3 day split twice in a week doing back to back push pull days should be fine. Those days are really working pretty different muscles, without any overlap I can think of.
  • 883xlsportster
    883xlsportster Posts: 221 Member
    piperdown44 wrote: »
    I run this a couple times a year between 531 cycles, and will be starting back up on it next week.
    My order is pull, push, legs because I have deads on pull day and that gives me a day before I hit legs.

    I've had good recovery/progress running it this way.

    Doing DL's with that order makes sense.
  • 883xlsportster
    883xlsportster Posts: 221 Member
    tillerstouch wrote: »
    Are you running that split twice a week? If you are taking a rest day between each split you should be fine. But even if you are doing the 3 day split twice in a week doing back to back push pull days should be fine. Those days are really working pretty different muscles, without any overlap I can think of.

    Working great for me running this twice a week at my age. Just getting some general input on order variation :-)
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    edited February 2016
    Wait.... if you run this twice a week then no matter how you order it you'll end up with push pull days back to back.... So I guess do whatever you like.

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