The 3-day split is one of the best programs you can do if you are a beginner on your fitness journey. It’ll give you a good place to start by providing a good starting amount of training volume and you still 4 solid rest days. Just make sure if you decide to do a 3-day split, do it right.
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On a 3-day split, it’ll be split up into 3 full body days. Throughout those 3 days, for both your upper and lower body, you’ll be training for strength as well as for hypertrophy, and you’ll get at least 1 day of rest in between each workout. The split will look as follows throughout the week:
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Day 1: Full Body / Day 2: Rest / Day 3: Full Body / Day 4: Rest / Day 5: Full Body / Day 6: Rest / Day 7: Rest
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On the strength exercises, try to focus on hitting heavy weight for low reps (anywhere in the 3-8 rep range should be fine). The goal of the strength days is to create more muscle building potential.
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Hypertrophy exercises will focus on moderate weight, higher rep exercises (in the 8-15 rep range). You’re not going as high on weight, so do your absolute best to do all exercises with perfect form, and really feel every rep, as you should for the strength days as well. -
With the use of this split, a caloric surplus, and progressive overload (try your best to improve your total training volume every workout), you are setting yourself up for muscle building success.

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