EMMA OBAYUVANA:

“If you are someone who is new to the gym, it’s best to focus on doing full-body, compound workouts. This is so that you get your nervous system, your muscles and your body ready for training. Equally, if you’re strapped for time, you can hit all the muscle groups in one go.

However, if you’ve got the luxury of experience or a number of days in the week that you can train, then you’ve got more opportunities to split your workout. So, with that in mind, it’s best to pick one major body part and supplement with a smaller but complementary body part. For example, a major muscle group is chest while triceps are a smaller muscle group. As we use pushing variations to train both of these, they are complementary to each other in a way that training chest with, say, calves wouldn’t be.

I would say we should be grouping muscles when we are training three or more times a week. In that instance, you might focus on legs, push, pull. This way it just gives each session a real purpose and each muscle group is trained with a high volume once a week.”

What muscle groups should you work out together? Experts explain how to split your workouts