Has anyone ever tried a full-body weight training routine and were your results as good as split day training?

Question

Of those of you that have tried a full-body weight training routine (i.e. doing one or more exercises for each body part during a workout and working every body part at least once), did you get good results?

I typically do a push pull split where days 1, 3 and 5 are chest, shoulders and tris and days 2, 4 and 6 are Back, Bi-ceps and Legs but need to change my workout up and I'm thinking about going with a full-body workout plan where I'll be supersetting and doing lots of compound movements to target my entire body.

Has anyone had success with a full-body plan?

Answer 1

I've had limited success w/ full body workouts, i take my weight training pretty seriously, i train/eat like a body builder... although i don't compete(a little to shy) To maximize my results i tend to change up my routine frequently.... push/pull, front/back, upper/lower.... there are endless possibilities... that's why i rarely do the same workout twice. When i do full body workouts it'll usually go for about a month... then my body gets used to it...and ill go back good ol' splits. Super setting when doing splits works well to stimulate muscle fibers... when done w/ full body... it will mainly just boost up your heart rate....(unless you super set the same body part... which would require alot of lifts per workout)

Answer 2

My workout runs in three phases. During the first phase, it's a full body routine for two weeks. Phase 2 is a split day routine for 3 weeks. Phase 3 is full body, but more intensity for 4 weeks. Then I go back to phase 1 and start the process over. It seems to be working well.

Love, Jack.

Answer 3

Here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Here what that will do for you, your metabolism will increase (i.e. Loose weight) and you will have more engry. If you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. That is why diets dont work. Only the size of your fist, carbs (examples:baked potato, pasta, oatmeal, beans, corn, melon, apples, fat free yogurt, whole wheat breads)in one and protien (examples:chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. You can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal, they dont have none or little fat). 30min cardo exercise every day. Any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming,running, biking, ect), Monday cardo, tues upper body (arms: curls, tricep extensions,pull ups, front press)(abdominals: leg pull crunch, leg raises), (chest: bench press, butterfly, pullover)(shoulders: front press, arm pullover, cross county skier machine)(back:seated row, lat pull downs, back extension)(YOU DONT HAVE TO DO IN ONE DAY, mix it up) wed cardo, thurs lower body (legs: leg pull,leg press, squats, lounges) fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt go into starvation mode. YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAY OFF. If you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! Stay away from Mcdonals, Wendys, ect because there is nothing good for you on the menu's even the salads are bad (beaon bits, cheeze, dressing, ect) Good Luck :)

Answer 4

I like the full body plan. Mon, Wed. Fri. I work the full body X 3 sets. Tues. & Thurs. I do yoga and some cardio. It works pretty good.

Answer 5

I've done one where it was Pushing exercises-pulling exercieses-day off the pulling-pushing-2 days off or for light cardio and it worked wonders

look up chad waterbury(think thats how you spell his last name anyway) if you'd like to know more