Q: I like the Old Man Young Muscle split, with 2 upper-body workouts and 1 lower-body workout. I do a second low-intensity leg workout on Monday, as you suggest in OMYM2. What do you think about just alternating the upper-body and lower-body workouts over three days a week?
A: Your question reminds me of a great bodybuilder from the 1970s Frank Calta and his Rotation for Recuperation method…
He trained on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week, alternating two different workouts: Workout A and Workout B
His wasn’t an upper/lower-body split; however. He split it like this…
Workout A: chest, back, biceps
Workout B: legs, shoulder, triceps
So a 2-week snapshot would be…
Monday, A
Wednesday, B
Friday, A
Monday, B
Wednesday, A
Friday, B
Repeat
Notice that each workout gets trained twice one week and only once the next.
It obviously worked for Frank. I’ll have more on how he used it, number of sets, and my thoughts on if it will work for you in the next training newsletter.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
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