THE PERFECT TRAINING SPLIT FOR A BUSY PROFESSIONAL: Does It Exist?

Let's start with an important question... What is a 'training split'?

A workout or training split is a structured approach to organising your exercise routine over a certain period, typically a week. It involves dividing your training sessions into specific days, each targeting different muscle groups or fitness goals. This approach allows you to focus on particular muscle groups or fitness aspects during each session, while also giving your body adequate time to recover between workouts.

The purpose of using a workout split is to optimise your training efficiency, prevent overtraining, and promote balanced muscle development or performance increases. Different splits can be designed based on individual goals, fitness levels, and preferences. Here are a few common types of workout splits:

1. Full Body Split: In this approach, you work out your entire body in each session. It's suitable for beginners or those with limited time to devote to the gym. Each session targets all major muscle groups, usually performed 2-3 times a week.
2. Upper/Lower Split: This split alternates between upper body and lower body workouts. For example, you might do upper body exercises on certain days and lower body exercises on others. This split is great for focusing on both upper and lower muscle groups while allowing for adequate recovery time.
3. Push/Pull Split: This split divides workouts into pushing exercises (like chest, shoulders, and triceps) and pulling exercises (like back and biceps). It helps maintain a balance between muscle groups and prevents overuse injuries.
4. Body Part Split: With this approach, you dedicate individual days to specific muscle groups, such as chest, back, legs, shoulders, and arms. This split allows you to target each muscle group more intensely but might require more time commitment and recovery.
5. Circuit Training or Functional Split: Instead of focusing on specific muscle groups, this split involves performing a variety of exercises that challenge multiple muscle groups and cardiovascular fitness simultaneously. It's often used for functional strength and endurance training.
6. Specialised Splits: These are tailored for specific goals like strength training, bodybuilding, endurance, or sports-specific training. The split design will depend on the specific requirements of the goal.

Now, if you're a busy professional and time is the issue then you must be smart with your training split. It can take up a lot of mental bandwidth thinking up what to do, googling, listening to podcasts and listening to the 1000 different ideas of the best way you can achieve your goal.

The truth is, your training split must take your goals, schedule, lifestyle, likes and dislikes into account. It must be a reflection of you and the frequency, intensity and recovery must be optimised if you're serious about achieving the desired outcome.

I think it's vitally important to identify 'why' you're training...

Is there a real goal you can touch, feel and experience or is it simply part of a lifestyle that advocates health longevity?

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Finally, to answer the question in the title...

Yes, the perfect split does exist for YOU and is unique to YOU and it takes work to find, build and establish this within your lifestyle. Click below for some help.