So I have been doing full body workouts the last months.

I switched to Push Pull Legs recently and it’sgoing quite well. PPLPPL Rest.

What I am asking myself though is do I have to be consistant with PPL so I reach 6 times a week?

What I mean does it have to be Push Pull Legs Push Pull Legs Rest or can I do that one week and the next week Push Pull Legs Rest Push Pull Legs?

Is it also okay to start the week with PPL and if I notice I have no time for 3 more times can I do PPL, Rest, Upper body, Lower body?

If I notice I have even less time, can I do PPL, Rest, >Full Body< Rest Rest?

So basically I should always benefit from PPL if I can guarantee atleast 4 times a week because I can always do Monday to Wednesday. Sometimes work and family kicks in and I cant add another cycle of PPL.

Am I giving this too much thought?

So last week I did PPL PPL Rest. This week I can do PPL and I will do Upper Lower Body on Friday and Saturday cause of work inbetween (coworkers got sick)… what do you guys think?

If this happens a lot, should I just stay with Upper Lower Body split instead and scrap PPL?

I like PPL currently but it sucks that I cant always guarantee 6 days time. I’d say every second week I can go 5 times… it never happend that I only did 4 workouts yet.

The question also could be: Is Push Pull Leg Rest Upper Lower Rest also viable? Is Push Pull Legs Rest Full Body Rest Rest also viable? Since I have to reduce my exercises in a upper body day and lower body day…

Basically my Upper Body day is nothing different than Push/ Pull, just two or three exercises less. But I keep the compound movements in it like Pull Ups and Dips, Benchpresses,… I scrap the isolated exercises though.

The reason I am asking this is because I heard PPL is useless if you only go 3 times a week. But how is it if I can atleast go 4-5x a week? To me it sounds actually quite decent since I can still focus on chest triceps etc. on mondays, back and biceps on tuesdays and legs abs on wednesdays. And I can still hit most muscles again if I do upper day and lower day instead of another round of PPL either way. Maybe not as effective cause I won’t be doing flys and isolated triceps/ biceps exercises, but they still get hit a little bit twice?

  • Monkyhands
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    3 days ago

    There is nothing magical about a 7 day week that means you have to fit your programming to it.

    I do a kind of modified PPL, effectively PLPL, because strong legs is a priority to me. So it’s a 4 day split. I usually train 6 days a week, but sometimes 5, sometimes 7.

    So in a given week I may hit my glutes and hamstrings once, but back twice. Next week would be opposite. Over the course of a month or longer, it evens out, and I get plenty of frequency in for each body part.