A very effective program for hypertrophy is a four days per week routine in which the body parts a divided into three functional categories: Push, Pull, and Legs. This is ideal for beginner to intermediate trainers looking to gain size and strength. The program is moderate volume but higher frequency (each body part gets hit once every five days or so).
This is a push/pull/legs split (a three-way split). You will train four days per week, something like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday (only have two back-to-back days). The days will rotate around a bit because it’s a three-way split over four training days per week (i.e., one week, you’ll train chest on Monday, then train it again on Saturday; then the next week, you’d train it on Friday and the following week on Wednesday).
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