Should I schedule my weekly lifts by body parts or by movements (push/pull)?
It depends on what your training goals are and which sport you are training for. For some sports, like football, upper body push-pull sessions might be more appropriate due to the amount of games played in a week. However, for general fitness, whole body workouts may be more beneficial. Transcript: "My son is a good question. The, the answer, I guess, will depend on a number of factors. Including the, what your training goals are, whether you're training for a particular sport, or with you just training for Aesthetics and was pointing a training cycle. You might be as you move towards a particular training, goal training outcome and typically speaking with the Summers. I work with a stick with whole body workouts. But then with football team, oh I work with. I will quite often just do upper body. Push, Pull sessions with them depending on the point of the week in the point in the season because if it's if it's in season and if we got a lot of games common ground and you know, we might only do one small lower body hit in the week and then we still want to maintain some and and indeed gain some mass and size and strength to the upper body School. When we schedule a little bit differently that in that way, we had you can you can I would say that one is necessarily superior to the other. It just depends on what you're training. A mango always."
Bryan Doo
Strength & Conditioning Coach
It depends on your goals, schedule and availability when deciding whether to schedule your weekly lifts by body part or movement push/pull.
Matthew Pendola
Olympic Champion Strength Coach / RunFORM podcast
When scheduling your weekly lifts, it is best to focus on movements rather than body parts. This way, you can ensure that you are touching all necessary muscles more frequently, which will lead to better results. Additionally, a push-pull session may be beneficial in order to help with the end goal of running faster and gaining relative strength. Finally, one could do some body part exercises at the end of the workout as a reward for their hard work.
Erin Carson
World Champion Strength Coach
Strength training has a lot of research done around it, and depending on your desired outcome, there are different strategies to consider. When it comes to separating body parts, it allows you to train more often and potentially grow that muscle. However, for runners and triathletes, it is best to look at movements push-pull legs and incorporate it into their other training.
Danny Kennedy
The Fitness & Lifestyle Podcast
I prefer to program movements rather than body parts, as it allows for better training quality and frequency. This should lead to better results over a longer period of time, while also allowing for quicker recovery.
Jess Racz
WNBA Performance Coach
For General Athletes, I usually structure my workouts to include a full body lifting three days a week. I make sure to include a single leg squat, hamstring movement, adductor movement, an upper body vertical push, an upper body vertical pull, a horizontal push, and a horizontal pull. Additionally, some core work is included. If you are working out more than three times per week, then you can split it up into lower body one day, upper body the other day, etc.
Paul Talty
Head of Physical Preparation, Swim Ireland
It depends on what your training goals are and which sport you are training for. For some sports, like football, upper body push-pull sessions might be more appropriate due to the amount of games played in a week. However, for general fitness, whole body workouts may be more beneficial.