u/LucatielsMask

After experimenting a bit with upper/lower and push/pull 4-day splits, I have found a variation of push/pull that I've really enjoyed and spreads the burden more evenly across the two days instead of having a hard and and easy day:

Push Upper (Chest, Shoulder, Bicep) + Pull Lower (Hams) (A)
Pull Upper (Back, Tricep) + Push Lower (Quads, Calves, anything else leg) (A)
Rest
Push Upper + Pull Lower (B)
Pull Upper + Push Lower (B)

The main problem with U/L and P/P is that Upper and Push days tend to be much harder and involve more exercises than Lower and Pull days. And I hate to have two leg days a week on U/L. This split combines the hardest Upper workout with the easiest Lower, and then the easiest Upper with the hardest Lower. Also means your back didn't tire out on the day you might do deadlifts.

Anyone else do this? Any particular reason why this split is bad? I don't see any functional reason why you have to strictly do pushes or pulls for both upper and lower on the same day so swapping them seems fine.

Hello, wonderful people of this sub.

I've been doing farmer's walks sporadically and I really enjoy them. But I have a question about how you target the ideal weight for them. Clearly it's one thing to put as much weight on as you can lift and carry for a bit but usually it's my grip that fails before anything else so I'm wondering if I should add less and walk for longer. For those of you who do these regularly and have seen visible improvement, do you target a certain amount of weight (say a certain percentage of your deadlift max) or a certain amount of time that you can walk before any part of you fails? (say, the max weight in which you can walk 30 seconds).

Thanks

EDIT: another question, when you need to walk back, do you turn while still holding the bar or do you put it down, turn, and pick it back up? I usually turn very slowly while holding the bar but not sure if this carries any injury risk.