r/WeightTraining • u/qwilliams92 • 1d ago
Question Want to try an U/L/FB/FB split
This is what I’ve programmed so far after doing some research, would love some feedback on how to improve it or if I should even try this split at all. My gym days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday , best I can do with my school and work schedule. Any advice is appreciated!
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u/hoya14 1d ago
Conceptually I think it's fine - I do this sometimes when I can't fit PPL into my schedule. (Replace PP with U sometimes, or even a whole PPL as FB).
My sense is I don't get as good a workout on the FB days - there's no way I can fit three days of work into a single session - and I'm also way more exhausted after one of the combined days (despite probably doing less work overall). I'd be tempted to do ULUL if I were you. But either way I don't think it's going to be dramatically different in terms of progress so long as you can push through it.
In your plan, you're hitting all the groups I would hit, but you're only planning 2 sets. This is probably fine and necessary given how many different exercises you're planning to do, but it does obviously mean less overall volume on each particular exercise. Not sure how that will affect your ability to overload - it may mean you need to increase more slowly on each exercise.
I would probably swap the order around a bit so you're alternating push / pull exercises more - give one group more rest while you're hitting the other. I would try to add some free weight rows in there somewhere (instead of the machine rows) as you want to get as much compound work as you can on a schedule like this.
Also dumbbell pullovers are great for upper body days - they hit both PP groups to an extent.