re: Hey OT Workout Crew, Full body or split body routine?

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Was wondering which of the two was more beneficial. At the moment, I'm just doing a lot of cardio to drop weight and lose fat but once I get to the mark I wanna be at, I was wondering which direction I should go in.

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Both have their benefits. It completely depends on what you want to do.

You mentioned wanting to lose weight, the full body routine is a great way to do more high intensity workouts while still building some muscle. It's also less workouts per week, and less of a time commitment. It's going to be entirely(or it should anyway)compound movements.

A split can be as simple or as complicated as you want. You can make it a push/pull, a lower/upper, or break it down further. A split is going to focus a lot more on building strength, and doing more isolation exercises, and adding i supersets and other things like that. You will never find a bodybuilder that does a full body routine, because you can' focus on the individual muscles enough.

I personally do a 3 day split that is called: Primary Mover Plus Synergist. That basically means that you add in groups that work together, instead of opposing muscles. For example: Day 1- Chest and Tris, Day 2- Back and Biceps, Day 3- Legs and Cardio, Day 4- Off day, repeat. The opposite would be when you work out chest, and back together so you are constantly working out opposing muscles.


I think if you are serious about lifting you have to do a split. However, if you are just wanting to get into shape and maintain, a full body routine will work.