When you do a full body workout, the stress of training all your muscles at once can lead to overtraining and injury. Splitting up workouts into different areas of the body means that one muscle group is recovering while another is being trained so there’s less chance for injuries. It also allows you to focus on specific goals such as increasing strength or improving endurance in certain parts of your body without neglecting other aspects like flexibility or cardiovascular health. So what kind of split routine are you using? If none, we recommend following our three-day plan which includes two days focused on leg exercises and one day focusing on back and shoulder exercises!
Training your entire body in one workout session has its merits, but for people who are time-strapped or have injuries that prevent them from working out all at once, split workouts may be a better fit. This type of training schedules isolates specific muscles on different dates and allows you to focus more energy on the areas of the body with which you’re most concerned. Which is right for you? You can try both methods to see what works best!
When it comes to choosing a workout routine, there’s no one-size-fits all approach. But we do know that our bodies are designed for movement and playfulness. That’s why at Movement Matters, we nurture the natural human movements of standing, squatting, walking, jumping and running as part of an integrated whole body practice which aims to reconnect your mind with your environment through skilful yet purposeful physical activity. We can’t say what type of exercise is best for you – ultimately only you can decide this question based on how you feel when exercising (and also other factors). All we ask is that if nothing else works out or feels right then give us a try!
Benefits of Full Body Training
1 – Adaptation: Functional full-body workouts provide a more integrated approach to fitness and can help add variation to your workout. Are you bored with routine exercises? Full body workouts include everything from swimming and cycling, climbing and martial arts. With so many options, you’re less likely to get stuck during exercise, keeping your mind sharp as well as your movements.
2 – Save time: when you can train all your major muscles in one workout, you can train more efficiently and in a much shorter time. A real dream, though? Your body earns more for your money, which is a bailout for short-term exercisers.
3 – Target more muscle groups: Large compound movements help to stimulate more muscles and burn more calories. If you do this several times a week, in different repetition ranges and training styles, you will be hitting multiple parts of the body at the same time.
4 – Increase recovery time: As you run more muscles in less exercise, your body will have more time to rest. You can exercise your whole body almost every day, remember the importance of rest days, give your body plenty of time to recover, and avoid overwork injuries.
Advantages of interval training
1 – Focus on the weakest parts of the body: If you want to strengthen a specific area of the body, interval exercises can really help you focus your attention on one muscle group at a time. This is especially important if you get injured – interval training can help you work around a sore body part that is often difficult to avoid during a full-body course.
2 – Achieve specific goals: This is especially important if you are doing strength training. Interval training allows you to focus on specific muscle groups, target and shape individual parts to develop the figure you want.
3 – Mix and match: Interval training may not be clinical. You can make a difference and exercise different body parts together. For example, shoulders and arms one day, back and legs the next day. This helps keep things interesting so you don’t get bored or stuck during exercise.