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What’s the best training split for building muscle?
The two principles you must understand to keep getting stronger
I’ve been working out for nearly three decades, only taking breaks due to illness, bereavement, lack of funds or injury. Over thousands of workouts I’ve tried a whole host of routines; full body workouts, slow motion workouts, upper body and lower body splits, high volume training, power factor training, Heavy Duty training, negative only training... Some of the routines I’ve tried have yielded excellent results, others have been a waste of time. Some routines I’ve avoided altogether because they clearly pose an unnecessarily large risk of injury.
Even though we all share the same biological make up and are subject to the same physical laws, there is vast array of exercise routines people have used to build great physiques. Most of them will work for at least a while before progress grinds to a demoralising halt.
In order to successfully build strength and understand why exercise routines become less effective with time you must familiarise yourself with two basic principles: adaptation and recovery ability.
No routine which ignores these two principles will ever yield significant results.
