Push ,pull, leg days

I’m not sure what you mean by method. It’s just a way of splitting up your training days over the week, right? It’s not a method as such. I have done a 3 day ppl training set up before when I could only commit to 3 days a week in the gym. I’m currently splitting my training up over 4 sessions so upper lower upper lower.

I do push/pull with associated leg isolations in each: push - calf raises, leg extension; pull - leg curls. I'd add cable pull throughs to pulls but I don't have a cable machine.

I was doing a 3day PPL, but people on here told me it’s not optimal to only work muscles once a week. I am trying to move to upper lower 3day. However, I’m thinking about a 3day full body if I can find a good program…

I've done PPL in the past but am currently doing an upper/lower split

I do Pull-Push-Legs the first three days of the week, rest on Thursday, then do Upper-Lower for Friday Saturday, rest again on Sunday.

allother94 wrote: »

I was doing a 3day PPL, but people on here told me it’s not optimal to only work muscles once a week. I am trying to move to upper lower 3day. However, I’m thinking about a 3day full body if I can find a good program…

You ideally want to hit each muscle group at minimum 2x per week...3x is even better. So if you only have 3 days for the gym a full body program would be the way to go. When I've done push/pull I've always done at least 4x per week and included legs with each session, not just a standalone session for legs...so push days would include things like squats, leg press, etc...pull days would include things like deadlifts and deadlift variations good mornings, things like that.

So I do a push pull program. I don’t do it for BB, I do it to better my ability within CrossFit (weightlifting, gymnastics, fitness, endurance etc), all round strength and of course to look good naked.

I have done a combination of the Extended Russian Power Routine (Monday, Wednesday and Saturday), which isolates legs & chest Monday & Saturday through squats and bench press, legs & back (Wednesday) through deadlift and hyper back extensions.

So push on squat days and pull on the deadlift day.

I then supplement it with push shoulder movements on Tuesday and pull shoulder movements on Thursdays.

I also do a push/pull ab routine on Monday’s & Wednesday’s.

I have been on it now for 5 weeks and I can feel and see the difference within the various disciplines that define CrossFit.

I am of the opinion by weeks end my entire body has been targeted, maybe not my calves but I wasn’t blessed with those and no amount of calve work will get me a set of those.

Depends on the goal. If you are Bodybuilding or Powerlifting, then not the best. Volume is hard to meet, specially on upper body, since they categorize either Push or pull. Cant get the volume like other BB workouts. If your goal is to just stay active, then its fine. Ive just yet to see anyone get great results. What I mean by great results, is looking like you actually workout... lol

PHUL will get you working as required.
Check out "which lifting program is best for me" thread.

I've heard the saying, the best workout split is the one that works for you and your lifestyle.

For me, that's upper/lower with a rest day in between, though I'm typically on the stationary bike those days. That gets me both upper and lower done twice every eight days. At my age, early 50's, I've found I can't recover well enough to keep doing weights on consecutive days consistently.

On my legs days I add about 15 minutes at the end for myo-reps for lateral raises and some arms. I don't do specific arm isolation work on the upper days.