Split Training
What, When, and How To Use Split Training
Split training is a bodybuilding method that you use to break up your weight training routines into more manageable blocks so that you have enough energy to exhaust your muscles and cause them to grow in strength and size.
Typically, when you first start out bodybuilding, or weight training, you train the full body in 3 work-outs a week. But once your muscles develop in strength and size, past a certain point, you won't be able to train them hard enough in a full-body work-out.
So, you split your body-part into two groups (you can do three, but it's less typical): Torso for one, arms and legs for the other. Or, you can do chest, delts, biceps, and thighs one day and back, triceps, and calves the other.
No matter how you split it, you'll find yourself moving rapidly to split training over the more traditional full-body work-outs.
Usually, a split system consists of Monday and Thursday training one half, and Tuesday and Friday training the other half of the body. However, there is a notable variation on this, and that is to train one half on Monday and Friday, and the other half on Wednesday. Alternate that routine for several weeks of heavy weight lifting, and you'll not only get bigger, you'll get immensely stronger, too.
