Full-body splits: A great way to flex your muscles

Full-body workouts, thrice a week, may be the formula for stronger muscles

- Pulasta Dhar

Gym splits—the method that helps you train different muscle groups on different days—can be personally tailored, or one can just follow a popular split like the push-pull-legs system. It is not necessary, however, to follow any one split religiously. You could choose a single muscle split once you have mastered enough exercise variations and built strength. You could drop a cardio routine at the start, the end, or in between your split, or you could follow something more advanced like the French contrast method, where one explosive exercise is followed by a mirroring hypertrophy version of the same exercise. Among all these options, the one that tends to go under the radar a bit is the full-body split—where you train your full body every day. A video by fitness trainer Jeremy Ethier, in which he speaks of new research on the efficacy of doing a full body workout every gym day, is quite compelling. In it Ethier ranks all the splits with the help of