These exercises force the muscles to contract against resistance, whether it’s bodyweight, free weights or bands. These ...

A push, pull, legs program is as simple as it sounds. It's a full-body functional workout split that allows you to train multiple muscle groups based on their function or proximity to the body.

Put simply, a push-pull-legs (PPL) routine will maximise time in the gym, while allowing ample time for recovery between sessions, while an upper/lower split will do largely the same by ...

Pushing a muscle beyond its comfort zone is perhaps the simplest way to describe muscle hypertrophy, and both the full-body workout and a push-pull-legs (PPL) split can be used to achieve this.

If you like full-body workouts that focus on pull-push-legs-core, this circuit of these fitness components will challenge you, especially if you go heavy on the lifts and push your maximum on the ...

You can either have another upper and lower body day in this style or even do a push/pull/legs split for the second half of the week, for a total of five training days.

Abs of choice 20 or one-minute plank pose This section can combine machines, dumbbells or barbells, utilizing the same push-pull-leg circuit as above but with different (although similar) exercises.

Luckily, the time-efficient structure of a push-pull workout can (and should) be applied leg day, too, says Dane Miklaus, C.S.C.S., founder of WORK Training Studio in Irvine, California.

But the time-efficient structure of a push-pull workout can (and should) be applied leg day, too, says Dane Miklaus, C.S.C.S., founder of WORK Training Studio in Irvine, California.