Getting big and cut is the goal of many lifters and this is what they seek out when looking for an ideal weight lifting workout program. This of course is wanting the best of both worlds: big muscles yet chiseled abs. Thus it takes a spot on weight lifting workout program to get it right. As many know, in order to get big muscles you have to increase your eating and focus most of your energy on a weightlifting workout and away from cardio based workouts. On the other hand in order to get cut you are supposed to limit your eating, while placing concentration on cardio workouts! So one can see that a weight lifting workout program must really dial it in to balance both of these goals at the same time. Some general rules to follow are the following:

I’m going to cross the line to argue one of the most debated topics in the history of resistance training; the full body routine vs. the split. Now let’s first decide what a “full body” and “split” routine is. A “split” generally means you’re splitting your workouts up by muscles, movements, or body parts; for instance, push/pull/legs is a split of movement, upper/lower is a split of body part, and conventional bodybuilding splits that target specific muscles one at a time or even two at a time are considered split of muscle groups. All of these have their place and have their pros and cons but I do have a favorite and I’ll get to that later in the article.