Figure every once in a while we should have a workout thread here and this has been on my mind recently.

I feel like I built a really solid natty physique just doing the bro split - AKA one body part per session. This was just a more fun way for me to train and usually led to me looking forward to training.

Based on current evidence, we know this isn't necessarily ideal. You want to train each body part 2x a week with anywhere from 15-20 sets of weekly volume. But to be honest, I also get annoyed with the Jeff Nippards of fitness (nothing against him personally, he seems cool) that over complicated everything with exact volume, amrap, rotating split, etc.

But as I get older, and still natty for now, and have recently bloatmaxxed over the last few years... I've been looking to train to really optimize this extra weight and calories I've been carrying around as I do an extended cut.

Like I said, I always did bro split for a week.
- Chest
- back
- legs
- shoulders
- arms

Repeat.

I was doing tinkering with optimization mapping and new split I want to play with looks like:

Mon - Chest and Back (flat plane, so mostly flat benches and various rows).

Tue - GPP

Wed - Arms and shoulders (no front delt work, only side and rear)

Thu - GPP

Fri - Chest and Back (again - but this time focused on inclined movement such as incline presses, shoulder presses, and pulldowns).

Sat - Legs and biceps

Sun - Rest

This way I hit everything 2x a week with the exception of legs and triceps which both are high points for me so don't need to worry about 2x a week.

So this split came about by me creating a matrixed diagram of how to hit parts directly and how to hit parts indirectly with assigned values.

I'm a finance and numbers guy so I nerded out a bit, but at the end of the day, if I'm not on the magic sauce will any of this make a damn real difference? Should I just keep it simple at the bro split and probably enjoy training more?

Yikes, that's longer than intended.

IB TLDR across the board.