Chapter 3 · Matt Peacock
Optimal Training Splits for Beginners
August 11, 2025
What is the best training split for someone starting out? The one that fits in with their lifestyle. So I would say if you're just starting out, you've never trained, my preference would be a full body routine a few days a week. And the reason is, is because if you do, let's say you do a body part split or you do an upper lower, it might be more volume than is necessary. And you might have DOMS that you could have avoided it. Let's say we spread that out over three days and you do three to four sets of each body part on each day Your level of DOMS is going to be a lot less You also going to have more frequency to do in those exercises which is good for learning and mastering the exercises very quickly Yeah so stimulate don annihilate Stimulate, annihilate. Effectively, you also learn the proprioceptive nature of each movement. So you master each movement much faster because you're doing more reps of each thing, but without the exhaustion of the back end reps. You're doing fresh sets every time. So fresh sets will always be done better. and think about this if you have a client who let's say you do an upper lower and this week it's like monday upper wednesday lower friday upper and they miss their lower day because oh i had to pick up my kids and then the next week they miss monday and friday's lower because oh something happened i had to blow dry my ball sacks or whatever people almost always if they're gonna miss a workout they'll miss the lower yeah and then they end up looking like a fucking snow cone bodybuilder i wish it weren't trousers next question