Is it better to have a full body split every week or doing things

compared to what?

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Squat, Bench and Deadlift should be your main focus.

everything else is just accessories to increase your main lifts.

>>38407356

As a whole, every muscle in your body will be under a state of increased growth from the damaged caused by weightlifting if you do a 3 day full body routine for all but about 12 hours every week.

I have wondered this lately too, a bro split hits a muscle once a week whilst a full body hits each muscle 3 times a week.

How could a bro split be more beneficial when it has less frequency, and potentially less volume in total per week.

>>38409407
>accessories to increase your main lifts

>>38409656
Because by breaking down workouts into different muscle groups/movement patterns (e.g. Horizontal push, etc.) it allows for increased performance in that area; whereas if you were to perform full body workouts every time the CNS exhaustion hinders performance.
That is not to say that one is better than the other, only that they are different. Now read the fucking sticky

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>>38409820
>Powershitters

>>38407356
I enjoy full body more, and i get to hit everything 3 times a week.

Early on, near maximum muscular development can be obtained from a single set of a single exercise [http://exrx.net/WeightTraining/Guidelines.html]. This kind of training will only work for a few weeks, tops, though so most beginner routines will have you doing at least three sets from the beginning to make programming simpler. During this phase, commonly described as 'novice', the trainee is also capable of fully recovering within a period of 24-48 hours so the workout may be repeated just a day or two after. Thus the maximum development may be obtained by working the full body three to four times per week.

As the trainee progresses the stress required to elicit an adaptation will exceed that which can be recovered from in as short a period. More complex periodization must then be introduced. Full-body workouts are still practical at this point but are getting longer as more stress and more rest time is needed between sets. An example of such periodization is the Texas Method (https://www.t-nation.com/training/texas-method). At this point the trainee may also decide to switch to bodypart or exercise specific workouts such as 5/3/1 or similar 4-day splits (https://www.t-nation.com/workouts/531-how-to-build-pure-strength).

tl;dr: Depends entirely on your training progression and you should probably just do one of the routines in the sticky if you have to ask.

>>38410382
tl;dr

>>38407356
General rules of thumb for most lifters:

- Focus on heavy barbell compound lifts as your main exercises. That includes:
Squat
Bench Press
Deadlift
Overhead Press
Row
Clean
Snatch
and variations of the above, and weighted bodyweight exercises, i.e. dips and chinups/pullups.

- Train every big muscle group at least twice per week
Legs, (Squat, Deadlift)
Chest, Shoulders, Triceps (Bench Press, Overhead Press, Dips)
Back, Biceps (Row, Pullup, Chinup)

- Smaller Muscle groups can be trained more often (with isolation exercises)
Biceps and Triceps
Shoulders
Calves
Abs

For every training day, choose 2-3 compounds (that make sense together, in your routine) and 2-4 accessory or isolation exercises.
Do one of the compounds heavy, for 3-5 sets of 3-6 reps, and the other light, for 3-5 sets of 5-15 reps.
For the isolation stuff, 2-4 sets of 8-12 reps is usually what you should aim for.

How you set up your routine depends mostly on how many days you train per week.

2 days - fullbody or upper/lower or push/pull
3 days - fullbody
4 days - 2x upper/lower or 2x push/pull
5 days - 2x lower 3x upper
6 days - 2x push/pull/legs
7 days - you should rest 1 complete day at least per week