Push Pull Training Routine - Push Pull & Build Your Way To Fast Growth

Push Pull Training Routine

Due to the fact that your body does not over train its muscle groups and has plenty of time to recuperate for fast muscle growth, the push pull training routine is more popular than ever.

In this article we will look further into why its works and an exercise routine you can put straight into action to build up your body. When I talk about a bodybuilding routine within this article I refer to the order in which the different muscle groups are trained.

Because in the push pull training routine we are not going to mix up the muscle groups. ie: if you train chest for example then your chest will be trained to completion before moving onto another group like your shoulders.

This is a really good way to not only maximise your muscle gains but also minimise your time that is spent in the gym, its a win-win situation. Here are the individual muscle groups in the push pull split:

* Chest

* Shoulders

* Triceps

* Legs ( quadriceps and hamstrings)

* Calves

* Abdominal

Chest, shoulders and triceps all have the same thing in common and that is they all need the tricep muscle to extend therefore are exercised by pushing. So when you do the bench press your triceps are still being worked indirectly, same as when you do shoulder press.

Knowing this it is important to work your chest and shoulders first then your triceps will be fully warmed up and ready for action. As a one off try training triceps first and then try benching, its near impossible!

Your pull routine is where you train both back an biceps in the same workout. Both these body parts use movements by pulling the weights which contract your bicep muscles. Start with the largest group of the two which is back and that will warm up your biceps indirectly and ready for blasting.

Legs can be trained on a day of their own if you have time. If not train them on your back,biceps day. if you wish to stick to a 3 day routine then legs, back and biceps is a great workout.

Lets look at what a typical push pull training routine looks like:

Mon - Chest, shoulders, triceps

Tues - If time allows do 30 mins low intensity interval training/Abdominals

Wed - Legs, back, biceps

Thurs - If time allows do 30 mins low intensity interval training/Abdominals

Fri - Chest, shoulders, triceps

Sat and Sun - Complete rest

Start again on Monday with legs, back, biceps and then just continue on alternating the 2 routines on the 3 x per week basis. Follow this push pull routine training routine for 90 days and closely monitor your results in your journal to see if it works for your body type. Its also great to use as an overall fitness programme as well as a bodybuilding one.