What Is A Push-Pull-Legs Split? #Shorts

#PushPullLegs is a way of splitting your workouts into push workouts where you train the pushing muscles; predominantly the chest, triceps, and anterior and lateral heads of the shoulder, pull workouts where you train pulling muscles like most of the upper and mid back, the posterior delts and the biceps, and leg workouts where you’ll train your lower body.

A push day will include exercises like shoulder and chest presses, lateral raises, and tricep isolation work. Pull workouts usually include rows, pull-ups or pull downs, and curls. And leg days usually involve some form of squat and some hamstring work.

Pull and push workouts are both almost entirely upper body focused, so #ppl training is likely to have a slight upper body bias. Sometimes something like deadlifts are programmed on pull days, that’s why I say almost entirely upper body focused.

How many training days a week are push-pull-leg splits? It’s usually 3 or 6 days a week. This means you’ll do one or two of each type of workout each week. Alternatively something that’s worked well for me in terms of optimising recovery is to do three days of push-pull-legs followed by a rest day, and repeat. This means my training days won’t be consistent with days of the week, but I will get about 2 rest days a week on average.

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P.S. I change the order of the workouts to Legs, Push, Pull because I find that if leg days are too close to pull days, my back gets really fatigued.

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